{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). "; } { 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. "; } ]