UCF.CONF(5)

✨ UCF.CONF(5) — ucf.conf 💖

🎀 NAME

ucf.conf - site-wide configuration file for ucf 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS

/etc/ucf.conf

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so the file /etc/ucf.conf is a POSIX Shell snippet that gets sourced by ucf(1) and ucfr(1) 🐚 it can contain any shell directive, so just make sure you know what you're doing 😭

all the variables come with reasonable default values, but they can be overridden on a site-wide or per-run basis 🫶

a) some variables can be set in the config file /etc/ucf.conf 📝 these values override the defaults ✨

b) some variables can also be set by setting a corresponding environment variable 🌈 these values take precedence over the config file 👑

✨ Configuration File options ✨

at the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are: 💜

• DEBUG — debugging info, bestie 🔍 the default is 0 (no debugging information gets printed) 🙈 to turn on debugging output, set the value to 1
• VERBOSE — verbosity 🗣️ the default is 0 (quiet) 🤫 to change the default behavior, set the value to 1
• conf_force_conffold — forces the installed file to be retained 🔒 the default is to have this variable unset, which makes the script ask when it's in doubt 🤔 this can also be overridden by the environment variable UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD 🌷
• conf_force_conffnew — forces the installed file to be overwritten 💥 the default is to have this variable unset, which makes the script ask when it's in doubt 🤔 this can also be overridden by the environment variable UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW 🌷
• conf_source_dir — this is the directory where the historical md5sums for a file get looked for 🗂️ specifically, they're looked for in either the file ${filename}.md5sum, or the subdirectory ${filename}.md5sum.d/ 💅
• conf_old_mdsum_file — forces the historical md5sums to be read from this file instead of defaulting to living in the source directory 📂 setting this option overrides settings in the environment variable UCF_OLD_MDSUM_FILE 🎀

🍓 Files

system-wide defaults are placed in /etc/ucf.conf, 🏠

🧚 SEE ALSO

ucf(1), ucfr(1) 🌈

💀 BUGS

there are no bugs. any resemblance thereof is delirium. really. 😭🌀

🫶 AUTHOR

this manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system 💜

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Debian GNU/Linux manual · UCF.CONF(5) · last updated Dec 31 2024 🎉 stay iconic, bestie 💖✨