Reference

mfsgui.cfg(5)

main configuration file for mfsgui

NAME

mfsgui.cfg - main configuration file for mfsgui

DESCRIPTION

The file mfsgui.cfg contains configuration of MooseFS GUI server process.

SYNTAX

Syntax is:

OPTION = VALUE

Lines starting with # character are ignored as comments.

STARTUP OPTIONS

Changes in this section require process restart.

WORKING_USER

user to run daemon as

WORKING_GROUP

group to run daemon as; optional value - if empty then default user group will be used

SYSLOG_IDENT

name of process to place in syslog messages; default is mfsgui

LOCK_MEMORY

whether to perform mlockall() to avoid swapping out mfsgui process; default is 0, i.e. no

DISABLE_OOM_KILLER

disable out of memory killer (Linux only, default is 1)

NICE_LEVEL

nice level to run daemon with; default is -19; note: process must be started as root to increase priority, if setting of priority fails, process retains the nice level it started with

FILE_UMASK

set default umask for group and others (user has always 0); default is 027 - block write for group and block all for others

DATA_PATH

where to store daemon lock file

RUNTIME OPTIONS

Changes in this section require only process reload.

SYSLOG_MIN_LEVEL

minimum level of messages that will be reported by chunkserver; levels in order of importance: ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG (default is INFO)

SYSLOG_ELEVATE_TO

reported messages of level lower than set by this option will be elevated to this level (i.e. if SYSLOG_MIN_LEVEL is set to DEBUG and SYSLOG_ELEVATE_TO is set to NOTICE, all INFO and DEBUG messages will be sent to syslog as NOTICE ; default is NOTICE)

CONNECTION OPTIONS

Changes in this section require only process reload.

GUISERV_LISTEN_HOST

IP address to listen on for incoming http connections (* means any)

GUISERV_LISTEN_PORT

port to listen on for incoming http connections

GUISERV_TIMEOUT

http connection timeout, in seconds (default is 300)

HTTP SERVER OPTIONS

Changes in this section require only process reload.

ROOT_DIR

document root for http server

REQUESTS_FILE

requests configuration file, absolute path or path relative to the ROOT_DIR; the content of this file should NEVER be modified by the user

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2026 Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki, Saglabs SA

This file is part of MooseFS.

MooseFS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 (only).

MooseFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

SEE ALSO

mfsgui(8)