generate_device_conf(1)

💅 generate_device_conf(1) — like, the manual page bestie 💅

okay so this is a User Commands page for generate_device_conf, section 1 of the manual, and it's genuinely the most useful little script you'll meet today, no cap ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

generate_device_conf — a whole entire utility whose job is literally to generate the device.conf file 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

generate_device_conf -h|--help -- print help message and exit
generate_device_confOPTIONS

like, that's the shape of it. yes, that second line is exactly how it's written, bestie — don't come for me, I'm just reporting the facts 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the way this works: this script creates the device.conf file, from scratch 💖

you edit this script, then you run it, and boom — you've got yourself a non-default configuration. that's the whole vibe.

this script is normally run at software installation time, but lowkey you can also edit it and then run it again to regenerate the device.conf file again. it's giving "second chances are real" energy 🫶

and where do the OPTIONS come from? from right down here 👇

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -H, --home-dir HOME_DIR — sets the mhvtl home directory. the default is /var/lib/mhvtl [default /var/lib/mhvtl. 🎀 (yes, the original brackets are slightly chaotic — iconic of it, honestly)
• -D, --dest-dir DIR — sets the destination directory. default is . — like, right here, where you're standing 💅
• -f, --force — overwrites an existing device.conf if needed. it's giving "no thoughts, head empty, just overwrite" 🔥
• -o, --override-home — lets the script keep going even if the home directory isn't present. main character energy: refuses to be stopped 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Mark Harvey. king behaviour, honestly ⭐

💀 BUGS 💀

okay, real talk, the page itself says it: this needs to be made user friendly and more verbose. and ngl, it would be nice to be able to change the device configuration file without editing this script 🙈

like... yes. agreed. we said it.

🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

Report bugs to <markh794@gmail.com> — go off, tell them everything, they want to know 💌

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. and listen — there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. that's a big no-warranty, okay, don't skip past it 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

device.conf(5), make_vtl_media(1), library_contents(5), vtlcmd(1), vtllibrary(1), vtltape(1), edit_tape(1), generate_library_contents(1) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🦋

anyway that's the page!! mhvtl 1.72_release+6.a11b6777660... and it's dated May 2025 — so like, recent. slay. go generate that conf, bestie, you're gonna do amazing 💖✨🎀