{pkgs}: [ { name = ["time" "timeZone"]; default = "CET"; example = "America/New_York"; description = "The time zone used when displaying times and dates."; } { 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 is read-only. 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" "useKernel"]; default = pkgs :(pkgs.kernel); description = " Function that takes package collection and returns kernel package. Do not collect old generations after changing it until you get to boot successfully. In principle, you can specify a kernel that will build, but not boot. "; } { name = ["boot" "configurationName"]; default = ""; example = "Stable 2.6.21"; description = " Grub entry name instead of default. "; } { 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 . "; } { name = ["boot" "extraKernelParams"]; default = [ ]; example = [ "debugtrace" ]; description = " Additional user-defined kernel parameters. "; } { name = ["boot" "hardwareScan"]; default = true; description = " Whether to try to load kernel modules for all detected hardware. Usually this does a good job of providing you with the modules you need, but sometimes it can crash the system or cause other nasty effects. If the hardware scan is turned on, it can be disabled at boot time by adding the safemode parameter to the kernel command line. "; } { name = ["boot" "kernelModules"]; default = []; description = " The set of kernel modules to be loaded in the second stage of the boot process. That is, these modules are not included in the initial ramdisk, so they'd better not be required for mounting the root file system. Add them to if they are. "; } { name = ["boot" "initrd" "kernelModules"]; default = [ "ahci" "ata_piix" "pata_marvell" "sd_mod" "sr_mod" "ide-cd" "ide-disk" "ide-generic" "ext3" # Support USB keyboards, in case the boot fails and we only have # a USB keyboard. "ehci_hcd" "ohci_hcd" "usbhid" ]; description = " The set of kernel modules in the initial ramdisk used during the boot process. This set must include all modules necessary for mounting the root device. That is, it should include modules for the physical device (e.g., SCSI drivers) and for the file system (e.g., ext3). The set specified here is automatically closed under the module dependency relation, i.e., all dependencies of the modules list here are included automatically. If you want to add additional modules, it's best to set . "; } { name = ["boot" "initrd" "extraKernelModules"]; default = []; description = " Additional kernel modules for the initial ramdisk. These are loaded before the modules listed in , so they take precedence. "; } { name = ["boot" "initrd" "lvm"]; default = false; description = " Whether to include lvm in the initial ramdisk. You should use this option if your ROOT device is on lvm volume. "; } { name = ["boot" "initrd" "enableSplashScreen"]; default = true; description = " Whether to show a nice splash screen while booting. "; } { name = ["boot" "copyKernels"]; default = false; description = " Whether the Grub menu builder should copy kernels and initial ramdisks to /boot. This is necessary when /nix is on a different file system than /. "; } { name = ["boot" "localCommands"]; default = ""; example = "text=anything; echo You can put $text here."; description = " Shell commands to be executed just before Upstart is started. "; } { name = ["boot" "extraGrubEntries"]; default = ""; example = " title Windows chainloader (hd0,1)+1 "; description = " Any additional entries you want added to the Grub boot menu. "; } { name = ["networking" "hostName"]; default = "nixos"; description = "The name of the machine."; } { name = ["networking" "useDHCP"]; default = true; description = " Whether to use DHCP to obtain an IP adress and other configuration for all network interfaces that are not manually configured. "; } { name = ["networking" "interfaces"]; default = []; example = [ { name = "eth0"; ipAddress = "131.211.84.78"; subnetMask = "255.255.255.128"; } ]; description = " The configuration for each network interface. If is true, then each interface not listed here will be configured using DHCP. "; } { name = ["networking" "defaultGateway"]; default = ""; example = "131.211.84.1"; description = " The default gateway. It can be left empty if it is auto-detected through DHCP. "; } { name = ["networking" "nameservers"]; default = []; example = ["130.161.158.4" "130.161.33.17"]; description = " The list of nameservers. It can be left empty if it is auto-detected through DHCP. "; } { name = ["networking" "enableIntel2200BGFirmware"]; default = false; description = " Turn on this option if you want firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG to be loaded automatically. This is required if you want to use this device. Intel requires you to accept the license for this firmware, see . "; } { name = ["networking" "localCommands"]; default = ""; example = "text=anything; echo You can put $text here."; description = " Shell commands to be executed at the end of the network-interfaces Upstart job. Note that if you are using DHCP to obtain the network configuration, interfaces may not be fully configured yet. "; } { 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 (label) 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; url = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/Theme-BabyTux.tar.bz2; md5 = "a6d89d1c1cff3b6a08e2f526f2eab4e0"; }; description = " The default theme for the virtual consoles. Themes can be found at . "; } { 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; url = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/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" "dhcpd" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable the DHCP server. "; } { name = ["services" "dhcpd" "configFile"]; description = " The path of the DHCP server configuration file. "; } { name = ["services" "dhcpd" "interfaces"]; default = ["eth0"]; description = " The interfaces on which the DHCP server should listen. "; } { 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 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" "xserver" "resolutions"]; default = [{x = 1024; y = 768;} {x = 800; y = 600;} {x = 640; y = 480;}]; description = " The screen resolutions for the X server. The first element is the default resolution. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "videoDriver"]; default = "vesa"; example = "i810"; description = " The name of the video driver for your graphics card. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "driSupport"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable accelerated OpenGL rendering through the Direct Rendering Interface (DRI). "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "sessionType"]; default = "gnome"; example = "xterm"; description = " The kind of session to start after login. Current possibilies are kde (which starts KDE), gnome (which starts gnome-terminal) and xterm (which starts xterm). "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "windowManager"]; default = ""; description = " This option selects the window manager. Available values are twm (extremely primitive), metacity, and compiz. If left empty, the determines the window manager, e.g., Metacity for Gnome, and kwm for KDE. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "sessionStarter"]; example = "${pkgs.xterm}/bin/xterm -ls"; description = " The command executed after login and after the window manager has been started. Used if is not empty. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "startSSHAgent"]; default = true; description = " Whether to start the SSH agent when you log in. The SSH agent remembers private keys for you so that you don't have to type in passphrases every time you make an SSH connection. Use ssh-add to add a key to the agent. "; } { name = ["services" "xserver" "slim" "theme"]; default = null; example = pkgs.fetchurl { url = http://download.berlios.de/slim/slim-wave.tar.gz; sha256 = "0ndr419i5myzcylvxb89m9grl2xyq6fbnyc3lkd711mzlmnnfxdy"; }; description = " The theme for the SLiM login manager. If not specified, SLiM's default theme is used. See for a collection of themes. "; } { 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" "noUserDir"]; default = true; description = " Set to false to let users to publish ~/public_html as /~user. "; } { name = ["services" "httpd" "extraDirectories"]; default = ""; example = " Options FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All "; description = " These lines go to httpd.conf verbatim. They will go after directories and directory aliases defined by default. "; } { 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" "userCreationDomain"]; example = "example.org"; description = " The domain from which user creation is allowed. A client can only create a new user account if its IP address resolves to this domain. "; } { 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 = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "organization" "name"]; default = null; description = " Name of the organization hosting the Subversion service. "; } { name = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "organization" "url"]; default = null; description = " URL of the website of the organization hosting the Subversion service. "; } { name = ["services" "httpd" "subservices" "subversion" "organization" "logo"]; default = null; description = " Logo the organization hosting the Subversion service. "; } { name = ["services" "httpd" "extraSubservices" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable the extra subservices in the webserver. "; } { name = ["services" "httpd" "extraSubservices" "services"]; default = []; description = " Extra subservices to enable in the webserver. "; } { name = ["services" "printing" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable printing support through the CUPS daemon. "; } { name = ["services" "dbus" "enable"]; default = true; description = " Whether to start the D-Bus message bus daemon. It is required by the HAL service. "; } { name = ["services" "hal" "enable"]; default = true; description = " Whether to start the HAL daemon. "; } { 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 = ["nix" "maxJobs"]; default = 1; example = 2; description = " This option defines the maximum number of jobs that Nix will try to build in parallel. The default is 1. You should generally set it to the number of CPUs in your system (e.g., 2 on a Athlon 64 X2). "; } { name = ["nix" "extraOptions"]; default = ""; example = " gc-keep-outputs = true gc-keep-derivations = true "; description = " This option allows to append lines to nix.conf. "; } { name = ["security" "setuidPrograms"]; default = ["passwd" "su" "crontab" "ping" "ping6"]; description = " Only the programs listed here will be made setuid root (through a wrapper program). It's better to set . "; } { name = ["security" "extraSetuidPrograms"]; default = []; example = ["fusermount"]; description = " This option lists additional programs that must be made setuid root. "; } { name = ["users" "ldap" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable authentication against an LDAP server. "; } { name = ["users" "ldap" "server"]; example = "ldap://ldap.example.org/"; description = " The URL of the LDAP server. "; } { name = ["users" "ldap" "base"]; example = "dc=example,dc=org"; description = " The distinguished name of the search base. "; } { name = ["users" "ldap" "useTLS"]; default = false; description = " If enabled, use TLS (encryption) over an LDAP (port 389) connection. The alternative is to specify an LDAPS server (port 636) in or to forego security. "; } { name = ["fonts" "enableFontConfig"]; default = true; description = " If enabled, a fontconfig configuration file will be built pointing to a set of default fonts. If you don't care about running X11 applications or any other program that uses fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a dependency on all those fonts. "; } { name = ["sound" "enable"]; default = true; description = " Whether to enable ALSA sound. "; } { name = ["i18n" "defaultLocale"]; default = "en_US.UTF-8"; example = "nl_NL.UTF-8"; description = " The default locale. It determines the language for program messages, the format for dates and times, sort order, and so on. It also determines the character set, such as UTF-8. "; } { name = ["i18n" "consoleFont"]; default = "lat9w-16"; example = "LatArCyrHeb-16"; description = " The font used for the virtual consoles. Leave empty to use whatever the setfont program considers the default font. "; } { name = ["i18n" "consoleKeyMap"]; default = "us"; example = "fr"; description = " The keyboard mapping table for the virtual consoles. "; } { name = ["environment" "extraPackages"]; default = pkgs: []; example = pkgs: [pkgs.firefox pkgs.thunderbird]; description = " This option allows you to add additional packages to the system path. These packages are automatically available to all users, and they are automatically updated every time you rebuild the system configuration. (The latter is the main difference with installing them in the default profile, /nix/var/nix/profiles/default. The value of this option must be a function that returns a list of packages. The function will be called with the Nix Packages collection as its argument for convenience. "; } { name = ["services" "samba" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable the samba server. (to communicate with, and provide windows shares) "; } { name = ["services" "gw6c" "enable"]; default = false; description = " Whether to enable Gateway6 client (IPv6 tunnel). "; } { name = ["services" "gw6c" "username"]; default = ""; description = " Your Gateway6 login name, if any. "; } { name = ["services" "gw6c" "password"]; default = ""; description = " Your Gateway6 password, if any. "; } { name = ["services" "gw6c" "server"]; default = "anon.freenet6.net"; example = "broker.freenet6.net"; description = " Used Gateway6 server. "; } ]