NAME¶
xfs.options - configuration options for the X font server
DESCRIPTION¶
/etc/X11/fs/xfs.options contains a set of flags that determine some of
the behavior of the X font server
xfs(1).
/etc/X11/fs/xfs.options may contain comments, which begin with a hash
mark (‘#’) and end at the next newline, just like comments in
shell scripts. The rest of the file consists of options which are expressed as
words separated by hyphens, with only one option per line. Options are enabled
by simply placing them in the file; they are disabled by prefixing the option
name with ‘no-’.
Available options are:
- restart-on-upgrade
- Enable this option with caution on
‘production’ machines; it causes the xfs daemon to
be stopped and restarted on upgrade. This will break all existing
connections by X servers to the font server, and as a result may deprive
them of access to fonts. In some situations this could be an unwelcome
surprise (for instance, for remote xfs users who had no idea the
administrator was performing system maintenance). On the other hand, for
machines that stay up for long periods of time, leaving the old daemon
running can be a bad idea if the new version has, for instance, a fix for
a security vulnerability (overwriting xfs's executable on the file
system has no effect on the copy of xfs in memory). This behavior
is disabled by default: xfs will be not be stopped or started
during an upgrade of its package; the administrator will have to do so by
hand (with invoke-rc.d xfs restart or by rebooting the system)
before the newly installed xfs binary is used.
Since no options are enabled by default,
/etc/X11/fs/xfs.options is not
created automatically.
AUTHOR¶
Branden Robinson customized
xfs's package maintainer scripts to implement
the functionality described above.
SEE ALSO¶
xfs(1)