System Facility Parameters
This chapter describes most of the parameters for setting default values for various system facilities.
System Default Parameters
The functioning of various system facilities is governed by a set of values that are read by the facility on startup. The values stored in a file for each facility are located in the /etc/default directory. Not every system facility has a file located in this directory.
cron
For details, see the Setting cron Defaults section of cron(1M).
devfsadm
This file is not currently used.
dhcpagent
Client usage of DHCP is provided by the dhcpagent daemon. When ifconfig identifies an interface that has been configured to receive its network configuration from DHCP, it starts the client daemon to manage 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).
inetd
For details, see the /etc/default/inetd information in the FILES section of inetd(1M), /etc/default/inetd.
inetinit
Used by the /etc/rc2.d/S69inet script to control the sequence numbers used by TCP.
init
For details, see the /etc/default/init section of init(1M).
The CMASK variable referred to in the file is not documented in the man page. CMASK is the umask that init uses and that every process inherits from the init process. If not set, init uses the default umask it obtains from the kernel. The init process always attempt to apply a umask of 022 before creating any files, regardless of the setting of CMASK. All values in the file are placed in the environment of the shell that init invokes in response to a single user boot request. The init process also passes these values to any commands that it starts or restarts from the /etc/inittab file.
keyserv
For details, see the /etc/default/keyserv information in the FILES section of keyserv(1M).
kbd
For details, see the Extended Description section of kbd(1).
login
For details, see the /etc/default/login information in the FILES section of login(1).