rcS(5)							   Debian Administrator's Manual						    rcS(5)

NAME

       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 set-
	      ting 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 manually 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 sys-
	      tems without asking for permission.

NOTE

       The EDITMOTD and RAMRUN variables are no longer used.

AUTHOR

       Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>

SEE ALSO

       inetd(8), init(8), inittab(5), login(1).

								    16 Jan 2006 							    rcS(5)