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NAME

6       machine-info - Local machine information file
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/machine-info
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DESCRIPTION

12       The /etc/machine-info file contains machine metadata.
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14       The basic file format of machine-info is a newline-separated list of
15       environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
16       to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere
17       variable assignments no shell features are supported, allowing
18       applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible
19       execution engine.
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21       /etc/machine-info contains metadata about the machine that is set by
22       the user or administrator. The settings configured here have the
23       highest precedence. When not set, appropriate values may be determined
24       automatically, based on the information about the hardware or other
25       configuration files. It is thus completely fine for this file to not be
26       present.
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28       You may use hostnamectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
29       command line.
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OPTIONS

32       The following machine metadata parameters may be set using
33       /etc/machine-info:
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35       PRETTY_HOSTNAME=
36           A pretty human-readable UTF-8 machine identifier string. This
37           should contain a name like "Lennart's Laptop" which is useful to
38           present to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations
39           of internet domain names. If possible, the internet hostname as
40           configured in /etc/hostname should be kept similar to this one.
41           Example: if this value is "Lennart's Computer" an Internet hostname
42           of "lennarts-computer" might be a good choice. If this parameter is
43           not set, an application should fall back to the Internet hostname
44           for presentation purposes.
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46       ICON_NAME=
47           An icon identifying this machine according to the XDG Icon Naming
48           Specification[1]. If this parameter is not set, an application
49           should fall back to "computer" or a similar icon name.
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51       CHASSIS=
52           The chassis type. Currently, the following chassis types are
53           defined: "desktop", "laptop", "convertible", "server", "tablet",
54           "handset", "watch", and "embedded", as well as the special chassis
55           types "vm" and "container" for virtualized systems that lack an
56           immediate physical chassis.
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58           Note that most systems allow detection of the chassis type
59           automatically (based on firmware information or suchlike). This
60           setting should only be used to override a misdetection or to
61           manually configure the chassis type where automatic detection is
62           not available.
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64       DEPLOYMENT=
65           Describes the system deployment environment. One of the following
66           is suggested: "development", "integration", "staging",
67           "production".
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69       LOCATION=
70           Describes the system location if applicable and known. Takes a
71           human-friendly, free-form string. This may be as generic as
72           "Berlin, Germany" or as specific as "Left Rack, 2nd Shelf".
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EXAMPLE

75           PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
76           ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
77           CHASSIS=tablet
78           DEPLOYMENT=production
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SEE ALSO

81       systemd(1), os-release(5), hostname(5), machine-id(5), hostnamectl(1),
82       systemd-hostnamed.service(8)
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NOTES

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