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MACHINE-INFO(5)			 machine-info		       MACHINE-INFO(5)

NAME
       machine-info - Local machine information file

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/machine-info

DESCRIPTION
       The /etc/machine-info file contains machine meta data.

       The basic file format of machine-info 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.

       /etc/machine-info contains meta data about the machine that is set by
       the user or administrator.

       Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be
       checked for machine information as well, however only as fallback.

       You may use hostnamectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
       command line.

OPTIONS
       The following machine meta data parameters may be set using
       /etc/machine-info:

       PRETTY_HOSTNAME=
	   A pretty human-readable UTF-8 machine identifier string. This
	   should contain a name like "Lennart's Laptop" which is useful to
	   present to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations
	   of internet domain names. If possible, the internet hostname as
	   configured in /etc/hostname should be kept similar to this one.
	   Example: if this value is "Lennart's Computer" an Internet hostname
	   of "lennarts-computer" might be a good choice. If this parameter is
	   not set, an application should fall back to the Internet host name
	   for presentation purposes.

       ICON_NAME=
	   An icon identifying this machine according to the XDG Icon Naming
	   Specification[1]. If this parameter is not set, an application
	   should fall back to "computer" or a similar icon name.

       CHASSIS=
	   The chassis type. Currently, the following chassis types are
	   defined: "desktop", "laptop", "server", "tablet", "handset", as
	   well as the special chassis types "vm" and "container" for
	   virtualized systems that lack an immediate physical chassis. Note
	   that many systems allow detection of the chassis type automatically
	   (based on firmware information or suchlike). This setting (if set)
	   shall take precedence over automatically detected information and
	   is useful to override misdetected configuration or to manually
	   configure the chassis type where automatic detection is not
	   available.

EXAMPLE
	   PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
	   ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
	   CHASSIS=tablet

SEE ALSO
       systemd(1), os-release(5), hostname(5), machine-id(5), hostnamectl(1),
       systemd-hostnamed.service(8)

NOTES
	1. XDG Icon Naming Specification
	   http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

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