mfsgui.cfg(5)

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)