---
name: "xfs.options"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "xfs"
version: "1:1.0.8-7"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xfs.options"
---

# xfs.options(5)

configuration options for the X font server

## 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)](/xfs/1.md).

*/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)](/xfs/1.md)