NAME

       machine-info - Local machine information file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/machine-info

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/machine-info file contains machine meta data.

       The basic file format of machine-info is a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible
       variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere
       variable assignments no shell features are supported, allowing applications to read the file without
       implementing a shell compatible execution engine.

       /etc/machine-info contains meta data about the machine that is set by the user or administrator.

       Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be checked for machine information as
       well, however only as fallback.

       You may use hostnamectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the command line.

OPTIONS

       The following machine meta data parameters may be set using /etc/machine-info:

       PRETTY_HOSTNAME=
           A pretty human-readable UTF8 machine identifier string. This should contain a name like Lennart's
           Laptop which is useful to present to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations of
           internet domain names. If possible the internet host name as configured in /etc/hostname should be
           kept similar to this one. Example: if this value is Lennart's Computer an Internet host name of
           lennarts-computer might be a good choice. If this parameter is not set an application should fall
           back to the Internet host name for presentation purposes.

       ICON_NAME=
           An icon identifying this machine according to the XDG Icon Naming Specification[1]. If this parameter
           is not set an application should fall back to computer or a similar icon name.

       CHASSIS=
           The chassis type. Currently, the following chassis types are defined: desktop, laptop, server,
           tablet, handset, as well as the special chassis types vm and container for virtualized systems that
           lack an immediate physical chassis. Note that many systems allow detection of the chassis type
           automatically (based on firmware information or suchlike). This setting (if set) shall take
           precedence over automatically detected information and is useful to override misdetected
           configuration or to manually configure the chassis type where automatic detection is not available.

EXAMPLE

           PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
           ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
           CHASSIS=tablet

SEE ALSO

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

NOTES

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