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1<?xml version="1.0"?>
2<!--*-nxml-*-->
3<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
4<!--
5 This file is part of systemd.
6
c91faef3 7 Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
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9 systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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11 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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14 systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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56ba3c78 22<refentry id="binfmt.d" conditional='ENABLE_BINFMT'>
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23
24 <refentryinfo>
25 <title>binfmt.d</title>
26 <productname>systemd</productname>
27
28 <authorgroup>
29 <author>
30 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
31 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
32 <surname>Poettering</surname>
33 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
34 </author>
35 </authorgroup>
36 </refentryinfo>
37
38 <refmeta>
39 <refentrytitle>binfmt.d</refentrytitle>
40 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
41 </refmeta>
42
43 <refnamediv>
44 <refname>binfmt.d</refname>
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45 <refpurpose>Configure additional binary formats for
46 executables at boot</refpurpose>
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47 </refnamediv>
48
49 <refsynopsisdiv>
50 <para><filename>/etc/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
db1413d7 51 <para><filename>/run/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
fc1a2e06 52 <para><filename>/usr/lib/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
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53 </refsynopsisdiv>
54
55 <refsect1>
56 <title>Description</title>
57
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58 <para>At boot,
59 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-binfmt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
60 reads configuration files from the above directories
61 to register in the kernel additional binary
62 formats for executables.</para>
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63 </refsect1>
64
65 <refsect1>
0e25e94e 66 <title>Configuration Format</title>
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67
68 <para>Each file contains a list of binfmt_misc kernel
69 binary format rules. Consult <ulink
6ed80a4e 70 url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt">binfmt_misc.txt</ulink>
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71 for more information on registration of additional
72 binary formats and how to write rules.</para>
73
74 <para>Empty lines and lines beginning with ; and # are
75 ignored. Note that this means you may not use ; and #
76 as delimiter in binary format rules.</para>
77
9393a877 78 <para>Each configuration file shall be named in the
e670b166 79 style of <filename><replaceable>program</replaceable>.conf</filename>.
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80 Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> override files
81 with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>
82 and <filename>/run/</filename>. Files in
83 <filename>/run/</filename> override files with the
84 same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages
85 should install their configuration files in
86 <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files in
87 <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
88 administrator, who may use this logic to override the
89 configuration files installed from vendor
90 packages. All files are sorted by their filename in
91 alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
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92 directories they reside. If multiple files specify
93 the same binary type name, the entry in the file with
94 the alphabetically latest name will be applied.</para>
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95
96 <para>If the administrator wants to disable a
e9dd9f95 97 configuration file supplied by the vendor, the
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98 recommended way is to place a symlink to
99 <filename>/dev/null</filename> in
100 <filename>/etc/binfmt.d/</filename> bearing the
e9dd9f95 101 same filename.</para>
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102 </refsect1>
103
104 <refsect1>
105 <title>Example</title>
106 <example>
107 <title>/etc/binfmt.d/wine.conf example:</title>
108
109 <programlisting># Start WINE on Windows executables
110:DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:</programlisting>
111 </example>
112 </refsect1>
113
114 <refsect1>
115 <title>See Also</title>
116 <para>
117 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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118 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-binfmt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
119 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-delta</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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120 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wine</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
121 </para>
122 </refsect1>
123
124</refentry>