Chapter 19. Configuration Parameters

Table of Contents

General Configuration Parameters
Responder Configuration Parameters
Miscellaneous Configuration Parameters
The Lire Archive and Temporary Files

Configuration variables are set in ${prefix}/etc/lire/defaults. If you want to override any of these variables, create a file ${prefix}/etc/lire/defaults.local. This will not be touched when upgrading the system.

If you don't like fiddling with configuration files manually, you can use the interactive lr_config script to set things up for you. Just start that script now, and use the rest of this section as a reference when needed.

Users can create their own ~/.lire/etc/defaults file. Settings in this file get added to (and possibly override) the ones in ${prefix}/lire/defaults. Users might like to set e.g.

TMPDIR=$HOME/lire/tmp/.
          
(after creating this directory) in their ~/.lire/etc/defaults files.

General Configuration Parameters

These are the parameters you most likely want to modify:

LR_DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT

This sets the report's default output format. It can be one of txt, xml, html, xhtml, pdf, logml, rtf or docbookx.

LR_SCALE_BYTES

This parameter controls whether bytes values will get scaled to a more human readable format (22.1M, 5.0k, etc.) in reports.

LR_SCALE_SEC

This parameter controls whether duration values will get scaled to a more human readable format (1h, 23.1m, etc.) in reports.

LR_SCALE_NUMBER

This parameter controls whether number values will get scaled to a more human readable format (1M, 3.4k, etc.) in reports.

LR_TARGET_USER

This sets the report's reader profile. Valid values are sysadmin or manager. Lire will tune the subreports' descriptions for that class of reader.

LR_USERLEVEL

This sets the amount of details you will get in subreport's description. Valid values are normal or advanced.

LR_INCLUDEIMAGES

When this variable is set to 1, Lire will include charts whenever possible in the generated report.

LR_ARCHIVE

This variable controls whether files are archived. Files which are candidates for archiving are moved from $TMPDIR to the archive. Furthermore, metainfo about the archived files gets stored in a Lire database.

LR_ARCHIVEDIR

This variable sets the directory where files which are canditates for archiving will be archived.

Defaults to ${prefix}/var/lib/lire.