rcS - variables that affect the behavior of boot scripts
DESCRIPTION
The
/etc/default/rcS
file contains variable settings in POSIX format:
VAR=VAL
Only one assignment is allowed per line.
Comments (starting with '#') are also allowed.
OPTIONS
The following variables can be set.
For the default values please see /usr/share/initscripts/default.rcS.
TMPTIME
On boot the files in /tmp will be deleted if their modification time
is more than TMPTIME days ago.
A value of 0 means that files are removed regardless of age.
If you don't want the system to clean /tmp
then set TMPTIME to a negative value (e.g., -1)
or to the word infinite.
SULOGIN
Setting this to
yes
causes init to spawn a
sulogin
on the console early in the boot process.
If the administrator does not login
then the sulogin session will time out
after 30 seconds and the boot process will continue.
DELAYLOGIN
Normally the system will not let non-root users log in
until the boot process is complete
and the system has finished switching
to the default runlevel (usually level 2).
However, in theory it is safe to log in a bit earlier,
namely, as soon as inetd
has started.
Setting the variable to no allows earlier login;
setting the variable to yes prevents it.
Some details:
The DELAYLOGIN variable controls whether or not the
file /var/lib/initscripts/nologin is created during
the boot process and deleted at the end of it.
/etc/nologin is normally a symbolic link to the latter location,
and the login(1) program refuses to allow non-root logins so long
as (the target of) /etc/nologin exists.
If you set the variable to no then it is advisable to ensure
that /var/lib/initscripts/nologin does not exist.
UTC
This is used to govern how the hardware real time clock is interpreted
when it is read (e.g., at boot time, for the purpose of setting the
system clock) and when it is written (e.g., at shutdown).
If this option is set to no
then the system clock is assumed to be set to local time.
If the option is set to yes
then the system clock is assumed to be set to something approximating
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
(POSIX systems keep a variant of UTC, without leap seconds.)
On contemporary Debian systems
(although change has been requested at
http://bugs.debian.org/346342),
if UTC is set to no then /usr/share/zoneinfo
must be readable early in the boot process.
If you want to keep /usr on a separate filesystem then
you must still ensure that the target of /etc/localtime
points to the correct zone information file for the time zone
of the time kept in your hardware real time clock.
VERBOSE
Setting this option to no (in lower case) will make the boot process
a bit less verbose.
Setting this option to yes will make the boot process
a bit more verbose.
FSCKFIX
When the root and all other file systems are checked,
fsck
is invoked with the -a option
which means "autorepair".
If there are major inconsistencies
then the fsck process will bail out.
The system will print a message
asking the administrator to repair the file system maually
and will present a root shell prompt
(actually a sulogin prompt)
on the console.
Setting this option to yes causes the fsck commands
to be run with the -y option instead of the -a option.
This will tell fsck always to repair the file systems
without asking for permission.
