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