OpenRC-settingsd

1. Description

OpenRC-settingsd is a daemon that implementats systemd's hostnamed, localed, and timedated D-Bus services for OpenRC. Some graphical tools, for example >=gnome-control-center-3.4, make use of these services to access and modify system settings.

Differences from systemd

OpenRC-settingsd uses settings files which are traditional for Gentoo OpenRC systems, and which differ from those used by systemd:

setting	OpenRC-settingsd	systemd
Static hostname	hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname	/etc/hostname
Locale variables	/etc/env.d/02locale	/etc/locale.conf
Console keymap	keymap in /etc/conf.d/keymaps	KEYMAP in /etc/vconsole.conf
Console keymap toggle	not used	KEYMAP_TOGGLE in /etc/vconsole.conf
X11 system keyboard	/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf (the location used in the Gentoo X server HOWTO)	/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
RTC local time or UTC	clock in /etc/conf.d/hwclock	/etc/adjtime
Preferred NTP service	Autodetected from a fixed list by default; customizeable via NTP_SERVICE in /etc/conf.d/openrc-settingsd	Chosen alphabetically from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/

Limitations

OpenRC-settingsd only recognizes the most basic way of setting variables in OpenRC files, i.e. foo="bar" in /etc/conf.d/baz.

Other ways of setting variables that exist in OpenRC, for example via /etc/conf.d/baz.${RUNLEVEL} or rc_baz_foo in /etc/rc.conf, are not supported by OpenRC-settingsd's parser.

2. Download

Releases

OpenRC-settingsd is packaged as app-admin/openrc-settingsd in Portage. The released source tarballs are archived here.

Git

The latest development sources can be downloaded from the git repository:

Code Listing 2.1:

$ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/openrc-settingsd.git

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Page updated September 7, 2012

Summary: OpenRC-settingsd is an implementation of systemd's hostnamed, localed, and timedated D-Bus services for OpenRC.

Alexandre Rostovtsev
Author

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