System Default Parameters

The functioning of various system facilities is governed by a set of values that are read by each facility on startup. The values for each facility might be stored in a file for the facility located in the /etc/default directory, or in properties of a service instance in the Service Management Facility (SMF) configuration repository. For more information on SMF services and properties, see Managing SMF Services in Managing Services and Faults in Oracle Solaris 11.1.

For information about setting power management properties, see Chapter 5, Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services (Tasks), in Managing System Information, Processes, and Performance in Oracle Solaris 11.1.

autofs

You can display or configure SMF autofs properties by using the sharectl command. For example:

# sharectl get autofs
timeout=600
automount_verbose=false
automountd_verbose=false
nobrowse=false
trace=0
environment=
# sharectl set -p timeout=200 autofs

For details, see sharectl(1M).

cron

This facility enables you to disable or enable cron logging.

devfsadm

This file is not currently used.

dhcpagent

Client usage of DHCP is provided by the dhcpagent daemon. When ipadm is used to create a DHCP address object, or when ipadm identifies an interface that has been configured to receive its network configuration from DHCP, dhcpagent is started to manage an address on that interface.

For more information, see the /etc/default/dhcpagent information in the FILES section of dhcpagent(1M).

fs

File system administrative commands have a generic and file system-specific portion. If the file system type is not explicitly specified with the -F option, a default is applied. The value is specified in this file. For more information, see the Description section of default_fs(4).

ftp

This facility enables you to set the ls command behavior to the RFC 959 NLST command. The default ls behavior is the same as in the previous Solaris release.

For details, see ftp(4).

inetinit

This facility enables you to configure TCP sequence numbers and to enable or disable support for 6to4 relay routers.

init

System initialization properties are now part of the following SMF service:

svc:/system/environment:init

You can display and configure system initialization properties, such as TZ and LANG, by using similar syntax:

# svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init
svc:/system/environment:init> setprop
Usage:  setprop pg/name = [type:] value
        setprop pg/name = [type:] ([value...])

Set the pg/name property of the currently selected entity.  Values may be
enclosed in double-quotes.  Value lists may span multiple lines.

svc:/system/environment:init> listprop
umask                              application        
umask/value_authorization          astring             solaris.smf.value.environment
umask/umask                        astring             022
upgrade                            application        
upgrade/skip_init_upgrade          boolean             false
upgrade/value_authorization        astring             solaris.smf.value.environment
environment                        application        
environment/LANG                   astring             C
.
.
.

For more information, see the FILES section of init(1M).

ipsec

This facility enables you to configure parameters, such as IKE daemon debugging information and the ikeadm privilege level.

kbd

Keyboard configuration properties are now part of the following SMF service:

svc:/system/keymap:default

You display and configure keyboard properties by using similar syntax:

# svccfg -s svc:/system/keymap:default
svc:/system/keymap:default> setprop
Usage:  setprop pg/name = [type:] value
        setprop pg/name = [type:] ([value...])

Set the pg/name property of the currently selected entity.  Values may be
enclosed in double-quotes.  Value lists may span multiple lines.

svc:/system/keymap:default> listprop
general                           framework          
general/complete                  astring    
general/enabled                   boolean     false
keymap                            system             
keymap/console_beeper_freq        integer     900
keymap/kbd_beeper_freq            integer     2000
keymap/keyboard_abort             astring     enable
keymap/keyclick                   boolean     false
.
.
.

For more information, see kbd(1).

keyserv

For details, see the /etc/default/keyserv information in the FILES section of keyserv(1M).

login

For details, see the /etc/default/login information in the FILES section of login(1).

mpathd

This facility enables you to set in.mpathd configuration parameters.

For details, see in.mpathd(1M).

nfs

You can display or configure SMF NFS properties by using the sharectl command. For example:

# sharectl get nfs
servers=1024
lockd_listen_backlog=32
lockd_servers=1024
lockd_retransmit_timeout=5
grace_period=90
server_versmin=2
server_versmax=4
client_versmin=2
client_versmax=4
server_delegation=on
nfsmapid_domain=
# sharectl set -p grace_period=60 nfs

For details, see nfs(4).

nfslogd

For details, see the Description section of nfslogd(1M).

nss

This facility enables you to configure initgroups(3C) lookup parameters.

For details, see nss(4).

passwd

For details, see the /etc/default/passwd information in the FILES section of passwd(1).

su

For details, see the /etc/default/su information in the FILES section of su(1M).

syslog

For details, see the /etc/default/syslogd information in the FILES section of syslogd(1M).

tar

For a description of the -f function modifier, see tar(1).

If the TAPE environment variable is not present and the value of one of the arguments is a number and -f is not specified, the number matching the archiveN string is looked up in the /etc/default/tar file. The value of the archiveN string is used as the output device with the blocking and size specifications from the file.

For example:

% tar -c 2 /tmp/*

This command writes the output to the device specified as archive2 in the /etc/default/tar file.

telnetd

This file identifies the default BANNER that is displayed upon a telnet connection.

utmpd

The utmpd daemon monitors /var/adm/utmpx (and /var/adm/utmp in earlier Solaris versions) to ensure that utmp entries inserted by non-root processes by pututxline(3C) are cleaned up on process termination.

Two entries in /etc/default/utmpd are supported:

• SCAN_PERIOD – The number of seconds that utmpd sleeps between checks of /proc to see if monitored processes are still alive. The default is 300.

• MAX_FDS – The maximum number of processes that utmpd attempts to monitor. The default value is 4096 and should never need to be changed.