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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 format of machine-info is a newline-separated list of
15       environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
16       comments and empty lines. It is possible to source the configuration
17       from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
18       features are supported, allowing applications to read the file without
19       implementing a shell compatible execution engine. See os-release(5) for
20       a detailed description of the format.
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22       /etc/machine-info contains metadata about the machine that is set by
23       the user or administrator. The settings configured here have the
24       highest precedence. When not set, appropriate values may be determined
25       automatically, based on the information about the hardware or other
26       configuration files. It is thus completely fine for this file to not be
27       present.
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29       You may use hostnamectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
30       command line.
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OPTIONS

33       The following machine metadata parameters may be set using
34       /etc/machine-info:
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36       PRETTY_HOSTNAME=
37           A pretty human-readable UTF-8 machine identifier string. This
38           should contain a name like "Lennart's Laptop" which is useful to
39           present to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations
40           of internet domain names. If possible, the internet hostname as
41           configured in /etc/hostname should be kept similar to this one.
42           Example: if this value is "Lennart's Computer" an Internet hostname
43           of "lennarts-computer" might be a good choice. If this parameter is
44           not set, an application should fall back to the Internet hostname
45           for presentation purposes.
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47       ICON_NAME=
48           An icon identifying this machine according to the XDG Icon Naming
49           Specification[1]. If this parameter is not set, an application
50           should fall back to "computer" or a similar icon name.
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52       CHASSIS=
53           The chassis type. Currently, the following chassis types are
54           defined: "desktop", "laptop", "convertible", "server", "tablet",
55           "handset", "watch", and "embedded", as well as the special chassis
56           types "vm" and "container" for virtualized systems that lack an
57           immediate physical chassis.
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59           Note that most systems allow detection of the chassis type
60           automatically (based on firmware information or suchlike). This
61           setting should only be used to override a misdetection or to
62           manually configure the chassis type where automatic detection is
63           not available.
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65       DEPLOYMENT=
66           Describes the system deployment environment. One of the following
67           is suggested: "development", "integration", "staging",
68           "production".
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70       LOCATION=
71           Describes the system location if applicable and known. Takes a
72           human-friendly, free-form string. This may be as generic as
73           "Berlin, Germany" or as specific as "Left Rack, 2nd Shelf".
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75       HARDWARE_VENDOR=
76           Specifies the hardware vendor. If unspecified, the hardware vendor
77           set in DMI or hwdb(7) will be used.
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79       HARDWARE_MODEL=
80           Specifies the hardware model. If unspecified, the hardware model
81           set in DMI or hwdb(7) will be used.
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EXAMPLE

84           PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
85           ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
86           CHASSIS=tablet
87           DEPLOYMENT=production
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SEE ALSO

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

94        1. XDG Icon Naming Specification
95           https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
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