{pkgs}:
[
{
name = ["networking" "hostName"];
default = "nixos";
description = "The name of the machine.";
}
{
name = ["boot" "autoDetectRootDevice"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether to find the root device automatically by searching for a
device with the right label. If this option is off, then a root
file system must be specified using .
";
}
{
name = ["boot" "readOnlyRoot"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether the root device should be mounted writable. This should
be set when booting from CD-ROM.
";
}
{
name = ["boot" "rootLabel"];
description = "
When auto-detecting the root device (see
), this option
specifies the label of the root device. Right now, this is
merely a file name that should exist in the root directory of
the file system. It is used to find the boot CD-ROM.
";
}
{
name = ["boot" "grubDevice"];
default = "";
example = "/dev/hda";
description = "
The device on which the boot loader, Grub, will be installed.
If empty, Grub won't be installed and it's your responsibility
to make the system bootable.
";
}
{
name = ["boot" "kernelParams"];
default = [
"selinux=0"
"apm=on"
"acpi=on"
"vga=0x317"
"console=tty1"
"splash=verbose"
];
description = "
The kernel parameters. If you want to add additional
parameters, it's best to set
is true, then each interface
not listed here will be configured using DHCP.
";
}
{
name = ["fileSystems"];
default = [];
example = [
{ mountPoint = "/";
device = "/dev/hda1";
}
{ mountPoint = "/data";
device = "/dev/hda2";
fsType = "ext3";
options = "data=journal";
}
{ mountPoint = "/bigdisk";
label = "bigdisk";
}
];
description = "
The file systems to be mounted. It must include an entry for
the root directory (mountPoint = \"/\") if
boot.autoDetectRootDevice is not set. Each
entry in the list is an attribute set with the following fields:
mountPoint, device,
fsType (a file system type recognised by
mount; defaults to
\"auto\"), and options
(the mount options passed to mount using the
flag; defaults to \"defaults\").
Instead of specifying device, you can also
specify a volume label (volume) for file
systems that support it, such as ext2/ext3 (see mke2fs
-L).
";
}
{
name = ["swapDevices"];
default = [];
example = [
{device="/dev/hda7";}
{device="/var/swapfile";}
{label="bigswap";}
];
description = "
The swap devices and swap files. These must have been
initialised using mkswap. Each element
should be an attribute set specifying either the path of the
swap device or file (device) or the label
of the swap device (label, see
mkswap -L). Using a label is
recommended.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "extraJobs"];
default = [];
description = "
Additional Upstart jobs.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "syslogd" "tty"];
default = 10;
description = "
The tty device on which syslogd will print important log
messages.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ttyBackgrounds" "enable"];
default = true;
description = "
Whether to enable graphical backgrounds for the virtual consoles.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ttyBackgrounds" "defaultTheme"];
default = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-BabyTux.tar.bz2;
md5 = "a6d89d1c1cff3b6a08e2f526f2eab4e0";
};
description = "
The default theme for the virtual consoles. Themes can be found
at http://www.bootsplash.de/.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ttyBackgrounds" "defaultSpecificThemes"];
default = [
{ tty = 6;
theme = pkgs.fetchurl { # Yeah!
url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-Pativo.tar.bz2;
md5 = "9e13beaaadf88d43a5293e7ab757d569";
};
}
{ tty = 10;
theme = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/Theme-GNU.tar.bz2;
md5 = "61969309d23c631e57b0a311102ef034";
};
}
];
description = "
This option sets specific themes for virtual consoles. If you
just want to set themes for additional consoles, use
.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ttyBackgrounds" "specificThemes"];
default = [
];
description = "
This option allows you to set specific themes for virtual
consoles.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "mingetty" "ttys"];
default = [1 2 3 4 5 6];
description = "
The list of tty (virtual console) devices on which to start a
login prompt.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "mingetty" "waitOnMounts"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether the login prompts on the virtual consoles will be
started before or after all file systems have been mounted. By
default we don't wait, but if for example your /home is on a
separate partition, you may want to turn this on.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "sshd" "enable"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether to enable the Secure Shell daemon, which allows secure
remote logins.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "sshd" "forwardX11"];
default = true;
description = "
Whether to enable sshd to forward X11 connections.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "sshd" "allowSFTP"];
default = true;
description = "
Whether to enable the SFTP subsystem in the SSH daemon. This
enables the use of commands such as sftp(1) and sshfs.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ntp" "enable"];
default = true;
description = "
Whether to synchronise your machine's time using the NTP
protocol.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "ntp" "servers"];
default = [
"0.pool.ntp.org"
"1.pool.ntp.org"
"2.pool.ntp.org"
];
description = "
The set of NTP servers from which to synchronise.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "xserver" "enable"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether to enable the X server.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "enable"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether to enable the Apache httpd server.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "user"];
default = "wwwrun";
description = "
User account under which httpd runs. The account is created
automatically if it doesn't exist.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "group"];
default = "wwwrun";
description = "
Group under which httpd runs. The account is created
automatically if it doesn't exist.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "hostName"];
default = "localhost";
description = "
Canonical hostname for the server.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "httpPort"];
default = 80;
description = "
Port for unencrypted HTTP requests.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "httpsPort"];
default = 443;
description = "
Port for encrypted HTTP requests.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "adminAddr"];
example = "admin@example.org";
description = "
E-mail address of the server administrator.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "logDir"];
default = "/var/log/httpd";
description = "
Directory for Apache's log files. It is created automatically.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "stateDir"];
default = "/var/run/httpd";
description = "
Directory for Apache's transient runtime state (such as PID
files). It is created automatically. Note that the default,
/var/run/httpd, is deleted at boot time.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "enable"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether to enable the Subversion subservice in the webserver.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "notificationSender"];
example = "svn-server@example.org";
description = "
The email address used in the Sender field of commit
notification messages sent by the Subversion subservice.
";
}
{
name = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "autoVersioning"];
default = false;
description = "
Whether you want the Subversion subservice to support
auto-versioning, which enables Subversion repositories to be
mounted as read/writable file systems on operating systems that
support WebDAV.
";
}
{
name = ["installer" "nixpkgsURL"];
default = "";
example = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.11pre7577;
description = "
URL of the Nixpkgs distribution to use when building the
installation CD.
";
}
{
name = ["security" "setuidPrograms"];
default = ["passwd" "su" "crontab"];
description = "
Only the programs listed here will be made setuid root (through
a wrapper program).
";
}
]