Installation guide

Chapter 3. Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown 67
3.7.1.14. /etc/sysconfig/init
The /etc/sysconfig/init file controls how the system will appear and function during the boot
process.
The following values may be used:
• BOOTUP=
value , where value is one of the following:
• BOOTUP=color means the standard color boot display, where the success or failure of devices
and services starting up is shown in different colors.
• BOOTUP=verbose means an old style display, which provides more information than purely a
message of success or failure.
• Anything else means a new display, but without ANSI-formatting.
• RES_COL=
value , where value is the number of the column of the screen to start status
labels. Defaults to 60.
• MOVE_TO_COL=
value , where value moves the cursor to the value in the RES_COL line.
Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo -e.
• SETCOLOR_SUCCESS=
value , where value sets the color to a color indicating success.
Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo -e, setting the color to green.
• SETCOLOR_FAILURE=
value , where value sets the color to a color indicating failure. De-
faults to ANSI sequences output by echo -e, setting the color to red.
• SETCOLOR_WARNING=
value , where value sets the color to a color indicating warning.
Defaults to ANSI sequences output by echo -e, setting the color to yellow.
• SETCOLOR_NORMAL=
value , where value sets the color to ’normal’. Defaults to ANSI
sequences output by echo -e.
• LOGLEVEL=
value , where value sets the initial console logging level for the kernel. The
default is 7; 8 means everything (including debugging); 1 means nothing except kernel panics.
syslogd will override this once it starts.
• PROMPT=
value , where value is one of the following boolean values:
• yes — Enables the key check for interactive mode.
• no — Disables the key check for interactive mode.
3.7.1.15. /etc/sysconfig/ipchains
The /etc/sysconfig/ipchains file contains information used by the kernel to set up ipchains
packet filtering rules at boot time or whenever the service is started.
This file is modified by typing the command /sbin/service ipchains save when
valid ipchains rules are in place. You should not manually edit this file. Instead, use the
/sbin/ipchains command to configure the necessary packet filtering rules and then save the rules
to this file using /sbin/service ipchains save.
Use of ipchains to set up firewall rules is not recommended as it is deprecated and may disappear
from future releases of Red Hat Linux. If you need a firewall, you should use iptables instead.