Chapter 3. Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown

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3.7.1.14.

/etc/sysconfig/init

The

/etc/sysconfig/init

file controls how the system will appear and function during the boot

process.

The following values may be used:

  BOOTUP= value

, where

value

is one of the following:

BOOTUP=color

means the standard color boot display, where the success or failure of devices

and services starting up is shown in different colors.

BOOTUP=verbose

means an old style display, which provides more information than purely a

message of success or failure.

Anything else means a new display, but without ANSI formatting.

  RES_COL= value

, where

value

is the number of the column of the screen to start status

labels. Defaults to 60.

  MOVE_TO_COL= value

, where

value

moves the cursor to the value in the

RES_COL

line.

Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo

 e

.

  SETCOLOR_SUCCESS= value

, where

value

sets the color to a color indicating success.

Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo

 e

, setting the color to green.

  SETCOLOR_FAILURE= value

, where

value

sets the color to a color indicating failure. De 

faults to ANSI sequences output by echo

 e

, setting the color to red.

  SETCOLOR_WARNING= value

, where

value

sets the color to a color indicating warning.

Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo

 e

, setting the color to yellow.

  SETCOLOR_NORMAL= value

, where

value

sets the color to 'normal'. Defaults to ANSI

sequences output by echo

 e

.

  LOGLEVEL= value

, where

value

sets the initial console logging level for the kernel. The

default is 7; 8 means everything (including debugging); 1 means nothing except kernel panics.

syslogd

will override this once it starts.

  PROMPT= value

, where

value

is one of the following boolean values:

yes

  Enables the key check for interactive mode.

no

  Disables the key check for interactive mode.

3.7.1.15.

/etc/sysconfig/ipchains

The

/etc/sysconfig/ipchains

file contains information used by the kernel to set up

ipchains

packet filtering rules at boot time or whenever the service is started.

This file is modified by typing the command

/sbin/service ipchains save

when

valid

ipchains

rules are in place. You should not manually edit this file. Instead, use the

/sbin/ipchains

command to configure the necessary packet filtering rules and then save the rules

to this file using

/sbin/service ipchains save

.

Use of

ipchains

to set up firewall rules is not recommended as it is deprecated and may disappear

from future releases of Red Hat Linux. If you need a firewall, you should use

iptables

instead.