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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later -->
+
+<refentry id="machine-info">
+  <refentryinfo>
+    <title>machine-info</title>
+    <productname>systemd</productname>
+  </refentryinfo>
+
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>machine-info</refentrytitle>
+    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>machine-info</refname>
+    <refpurpose>Local machine information file</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <para><filename>/etc/machine-info</filename></para>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>The <filename>/etc/machine-info</filename> file contains
+    machine metadata.</para>
+
+    <para>The basic file format of <filename>machine-info</filename>
+    is a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible
+    variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration
+    from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no
+    shell features are supported, allowing applications to read the
+    file without implementing a shell compatible execution
+    engine.</para>
+
+    <para><filename>/etc/machine-info</filename> contains metadata
+    about the machine that is set by the user or administrator.</para>
+
+    <para>Depending on the operating system other configuration files
+    might be checked for machine information as well, however only as
+    fallback.</para>
+
+    <para>You may use
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostnamectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    to change the settings of this file from the command line.</para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <para>The following machine metadata parameters may be set using
+    <filename>/etc/machine-info</filename>:</para>
+
+    <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>PRETTY_HOSTNAME=</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>A pretty human-readable UTF-8 machine
+        identifier string. This should contain a name like
+        <literal>Lennart's Laptop</literal> which is useful to present
+        to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations of
+        internet domain names. If possible, the internet hostname as
+        configured in <filename>/etc/hostname</filename> should be
+        kept similar to this one. Example: if this value is
+        <literal>Lennart's Computer</literal> an Internet hostname of
+        <literal>lennarts-computer</literal> might be a good choice.
+        If this parameter is not set, an application should fall back
+        to the Internet hostname for presentation
+        purposes.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>ICON_NAME=</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>An icon identifying this machine according to
+        the <ulink
+        url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html">XDG
+        Icon Naming Specification</ulink>. If this parameter is not
+        set, an application should fall back to
+        <literal>computer</literal> or a similar icon
+        name.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>CHASSIS=</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>The chassis type. Currently, the following
+        chassis types are defined:
+        <literal>desktop</literal>,
+        <literal>laptop</literal>,
+        <literal>convertible</literal>,
+        <literal>server</literal>,
+        <literal>tablet</literal>,
+        <literal>handset</literal>,
+        <literal>watch</literal>, and
+        <literal>embedded</literal>,
+        as well as the special chassis types
+        <literal>vm</literal> and
+        <literal>container</literal> for
+        virtualized systems that lack an immediate physical chassis.
+        Note that many systems allow detection of the chassis type
+        automatically (based on firmware information or suchlike).
+        This setting (if set) shall take precedence over automatically
+        detected information and is useful to override misdetected
+        configuration or to manually configure the chassis type where
+        automatic detection is not available.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>DEPLOYMENT=</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Describes the system deployment environment.
+        One of the following is suggested:
+        <literal>development</literal>,
+        <literal>integration</literal>,
+        <literal>staging</literal>,
+        <literal>production</literal>.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>LOCATION=</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Describes the system location if applicable
+        and known. Takes a human-friendly, free-form string. This may
+        be as generic as <literal>Berlin, Germany</literal> or as
+        specific as <literal>Left Rack, 2nd Shelf</literal>.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Example</title>
+
+    <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
+ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
+CHASSIS=tablet
+DEPLOYMENT=production</programlisting>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+      <title>See Also</title>
+      <para>
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostnamectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-hostnamed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      </para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>