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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<!--
+ This file is part of systemd.
+
+ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
+
+ systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+-->
+
+<refentry id="machine-info">
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>machine-info</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>machine-info</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>machine-info</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Local machine information file</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>/etc/machine-info</filename></para>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para>The <filename>/etc/machine-info</filename> file
+ contains machine meta data.</para>
+
+ <para>The basic file format of
+ <filename>machine-info</filename> is a
+ newline-separated list of environment-like
+ shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
+ to source the configuration from shell scripts,
+ however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
+ features are supported, allowing applications to read
+ the file without implementing a shell compatible
+ execution engine.</para>
+
+ <para><filename>/etc/machine-info</filename> contains
+ meta data about the machine that is set by the user or
+ administrator.</para>
+
+ <para>Depending on the operating system other
+ configuration files might be checked for machine
+ information as well, however only as fallback.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Options</title>
+
+ <para>The following machine meta data parameters may
+ be set using
+ <filename>/etc/machine-info</filename>:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>PRETTY_HOSTNAME=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>A pretty
+ human-readable UTF8 machine identifier
+ string. This should contain a name
+ like <literal>Lennart's
+ Laptop</literal> which is useful to
+ present to the user and does not
+ suffer by the syntax limitations of
+ internet domain names. If possible the
+ internet host name as configured in
+ <filename>/etc/hostname</filename>
+ should be kept similar to this
+ one. Example: if this value is
+ <literal>Lennart's Computer</literal>
+ an Internet host name of
+ <literal>lennarts-computer</literal>
+ might be a good choice. If this
+ parameter is not set an application
+ should fall back to the Internet host
+ name for presentation
+ purposes.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ICON_NAME=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>An icon identifying
+ this machine according to the <ulink
+ url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html">XDG
+ Icon Naming Specification</ulink>. If
+ this parameter is not set an
+ application should fall back to
+ <literal>computer</literal> or a
+ similar icon name.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Example</title>
+
+ <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Computer"
+ICON_NAME=computer-laptop</programlisting>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>