Rewrite and reorganize Chapter 7.

Update systemd customization.


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diff --git a/chapter07/bootscripts.xml b/chapter07/bootscripts.xml
index 64e244d79..51a5b8f9c 100644
--- a/chapter07/bootscripts.xml
+++ b/chapter07/bootscripts.xml
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
     <title/>
 
     <para>The LFS-Bootscripts package contains a set of scripts to start/stop
-    the LFS system at bootup/shutdown.  The networking systemd unit file is
-    also installed.</para>
+    the LFS system at bootup/shutdown.  A networking systemd unit file is
+    also installed.  The configuration files and procedures needed to
+    customize the boot process are described in the following sections.</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
diff --git a/chapter07/chapter07.xml b/chapter07/chapter07.xml
index ae298f0b0..695f471c5 100644
--- a/chapter07/chapter07.xml
+++ b/chapter07/chapter07.xml
@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@
 
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="introduction.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="bootscripts.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="network.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hosts.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="udev.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="symlinks.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="network.xml"/>
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hosts.xml"/>-->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="usage.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="sysd-custom.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hostname.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="setclock.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="console.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="sysklogd.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="site.xml"/>
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hostname.xml"/>-->
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="setclock.xml"/>-->
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="console.xml"/>-->
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="sysklogd.xml"/>-->
+<!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="site.xml"/>-->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="profile.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="inputrc.xml"/>
 
diff --git a/chapter07/introduction.xml b/chapter07/introduction.xml
index 27c5dbba4..243bad3b9 100644
--- a/chapter07/introduction.xml
+++ b/chapter07/introduction.xml
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@
     <filename>/etc/inittab</filename> file and is organized into run levels that
     can be run by the user:</para>
 
-    <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem><para>0 &mdash; halt</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>1 &mdash; Single user mode</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>2 &mdash; Multiuser, without networking</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>3 &mdash; Full multiuser mode</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>4 &mdash; User definable</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>5 &mdash; Full multiuser mode with display manager</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>6 &mdash; reboot</para></listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
+<literallayout>
+0 &mdash; halt
+1 &mdash; Single user mode
+2 &mdash; Multiuser, without networking
+3 &mdash; Full multiuser mode
+4 &mdash; User definable
+5 &mdash; Full multiuser mode with display manager
+6 &mdash; reboot
+</literallayout>
 
     <para>The usual default run level is 3 or 5.</para>
 
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ EOF
 
 chmod 0744 /usr/sbin/set-sysv</userinput></screen>
 
+  <note><para>The comment about the correct command to reboot in the 
+  above scripts is correct.  The reboot command for the current boot
+  system must be used after the script changes the default reboot command.
+  </para></note>
+
   <para>Now set the desired boot system.  The default is System V:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">/usr/sbin/set-sysv</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter07/network.xml b/chapter07/network.xml
index 4134bb40c..97ecf894e 100644
--- a/chapter07/network.xml
+++ b/chapter07/network.xml
@@ -24,106 +24,11 @@
   class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rc*.d</filename>) after the bootscripts are
   installed in <xref linkend="ch-scripts-bootscripts"/>.</para>
 
-  <sect2 id='stable-net-names'>
-    <title>Creating stable names for network interfaces</title>
-
-    <para>If there is only one network interface in the system to be
-    configured, this section is optional, although it will never be wrong to do
-    it.  In many cases (e.g. a laptop with a wireless and a wired interface),
-    accomplishing the configuration in this section is necessary.</para>
-
-    <para>With Udev and modular network drivers, the network interface numbering
-    is not persistent across reboots by default, because the drivers are loaded
-    in parallel and, thus, in random order. For example, on a computer having
-    two network cards made by Intel and Realtek, the network card manufactured
-    by Intel may become <filename class="devicefile">eth0</filename> and the
-    Realtek card becomes  <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename>. In some
-    cases, after a reboot the cards get renumbered the other way around. To
-    avoid this, Udev comes with a script and some rules to assign stable names
-    to network cards based on their MAC address.</para>
-
-    <para>If using the traditional network interface names such as eth0 is desired,
-    generate a custom Udev rule:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>bash /lib/udev/init-net-rules.sh</userinput></screen>    
-
-    <para> Now, inspect the
-    <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename> file, to
-    find out which name was assigned to which network device:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</userinput></screen>
-
-    <note><para>In some cases such as when MAC addresess have been assigned to
-    a network card manually or in a virtual environment such as Xen,
-    the network rules file may not have been generated because addresses
-    are not consistently assigned.  In these cases, just continue to
-    the next section.</para></note>
-
-    <para>The file begins with a comment block followed by two lines for each
-    NIC. The first line for each NIC is a commented description showing its
-    hardware IDs (e.g. its PCI vendor and device IDs, if it's a PCI card),
-    along with its driver in parentheses, if the driver can be found. Neither
-    the hardware ID nor the driver is used to determine which name to give an
-    interface; this information is only for reference. The second line is the
-    Udev rule that matches this NIC and actually assigns it a name.</para>
-
-    <para>All Udev rules are made up of several keys, separated by commas and
-    optional whitespace. This rule's keys and an explanation of each of them
-    are as follows:</para>
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>SUBSYSTEM=="net"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore
-        devices that are not network cards.</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>ACTION=="add"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore this
-        rule for a uevent that isn't an add ("remove" and "change" uevents also
-        happen, but don't need to rename network interfaces).</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>DRIVERS=="?*"</literal> - This exists so that Udev will
-        ignore VLAN or bridge sub-interfaces (because these sub-interfaces do
-        not have drivers). These sub-interfaces are skipped because the name
-        that would be assigned would collide with their parent devices.</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>ATTR{address}</literal> - The value of this key is the
-        NIC's MAC address.</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>ATTR{type}=="1"</literal> - This ensures the rule only
-        matches the primary interface in the case of certain wireless drivers,
-        which create multiple virtual interfaces. The secondary interfaces are
-        skipped for the same reason that VLAN and bridge sub-interfaces are
-        skipped: there would be a name collision otherwise.</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>KERNEL=="eth*"</literal> - This key was added to the
-        Udev rule generator to handle machines that have multiple network
-        interfaces, all with the same MAC address (the PS3 is one such
-        machine).  If the independent interfaces have different basenames,
-        this key will allow Udev to tell them apart.  This is generally not
-        necessary for most Linux From Scratch users, but does not hurt.</para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para><literal>NAME</literal> - The value of this key is the name that
-        Udev will assign to this interface.</para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <para>The value of <literal>NAME</literal> is the important part. Make sure
-    you know which name has been assigned to each of your network cards before
-    proceeding, and be sure to use that <literal>NAME</literal> value when
-    creating your configuration files below.</para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
   <sect2>
     <title>Creating Network Interface Configuration Files</title>
 
     <para>Which interfaces are brought up and down by the network script
-    depends on the files in <filename
+    usually depends on the files in <filename
     class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/</filename>.  This directory should
     contain a file for each interface to be configured, such as
     <filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is required to
@@ -216,12 +121,38 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
     <para>Replace eth0 with the correct network interface card
     name as described on the beginning of this page.</para>
 
+    <note><para>These procedures require the configuartion files as specified
+    in the previous section.</para></note>
+
     <note><para>The network card can also be started or stopped
     with the traditional <command>ifup &lt;device&gt;</command> or
     <command>ifdown &lt;device&gt;</command> commands.</para></note>
 
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="systemd2-net-enable">
+    <title>Configuring the Network Interface Card for systemd-networkd</title>
+
+    <para>An alternative way to configure a NIC when booting with with
+    systemd is to create a configuration file recognized by the
+    systemd-networkd daemon.  To configure the device create a file similar
+    to this:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/systemd/network/10-static-eth0.network &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+[Match]
+Name=eth0
+
+[Network]
+Address=192.168.0.2/24
+Gateway=192.168.0.1
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>You can use multiple .network files if desired.  You can also specify
+  DHCP=yes instead of the Address and Gateway settings.  See the man page for
+  systemd.network for more details,</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 id="resolv.conf">
     <title>Creating the /etc/resolv.conf File</title>
 
@@ -262,4 +193,100 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-hostname">
+    <title>Configuring the system hostname</title>
+
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hostname">
+      <primary sortas="d-hostname">hostname</primary>
+      <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+     <para>During the boot process, both Systemd and System V use the same file
+     for establishing the system's hostname.  This needs to be configured by
+     creating <filename>/etc/hostname</filename>.</para>
+
+     <para>Create the <filename>/etc/hostname</filename> file and enter a
+     hostname by running:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>echo "<replaceable>&lt;lfs&gt;</replaceable>" &gt; /etc/hostname</userinput></screen>
+
+     <para><replaceable>&lt;lfs&gt;</replaceable> needs to be replaced with the
+     name given to the computer. Do not enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name
+     (FQDN) here. That information is put in the
+     <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-hosts">
+     <title>Customizing the /etc/hosts File</title>
+
+     <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts">
+       <primary sortas="e-/etc/hosts">/etc/hosts</primary>
+     </indexterm>
+   
+     <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts">
+       <primary sortas="d-localnet">localnet</primary>
+       <secondary>/etc/hosts</secondary>
+     </indexterm>
+   
+     <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts">
+       <primary sortas="d-network">network</primary>
+       <secondary>/etc/hosts</secondary>
+     </indexterm>
+   
+     <para>Decide on the IP address, fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), and
+     possible aliases for use in the <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file. The
+     syntax is:</para>
+   
+<screen><literal>IP_address myhost.example.org aliases</literal></screen>
+
+     <para>Unless the computer is to be visible to the Internet (i.e., there is
+     a registered domain and a valid block of assigned IP addresses&mdash;most
+     users do not have this), make sure that the IP address is in the private
+     network IP address range. Valid ranges are:</para>
+
+<screen><literal>Private Network Address Range      Normal Prefix
+10.0.0.1 - 10.255.255.254           8
+172.x.0.1 - 172.x.255.254           16
+192.168.y.1 - 192.168.y.254         24</literal></screen>
+
+     <para>x can be any number in the range 16-31. y can be any number in the
+     range 0-255.</para>
+   
+     <para>A valid private IP address could be 192.168.1.1. A valid FQDN for
+     this IP could be lfs.example.org.</para>
+   
+     <para>Even if not using a network card, a valid FQDN is still required.
+     This is necessary for certain programs to operate correctly.</para>
+   
+     <para>Create the  <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file by running:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/hosts &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/hosts (network card version)
+
+127.0.0.1 localhost
+<replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.1&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME.example.org&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>[alias1] [alias2 ...]</replaceable>
+
+# End /etc/hosts (network card version)</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+     <para>The <replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.1&gt;</replaceable> and
+     <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME.example.org&gt;</replaceable> values need to be
+     changed for specific uses or requirements (if assigned an IP address by a
+     network/system administrator and the machine will be connected to an
+     existing network). The optional alias name(s) can be omitted.</para>
+   
+     <para>If a network card is not going to be configured, create the
+     <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file by running:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/hosts &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/hosts (no network card version)
+
+127.0.0.1 <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME.example.org&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME&gt;</replaceable> localhost
+
+# End /etc/hosts (no network card version)</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+   </sect2>
+
 </sect1>
diff --git a/chapter07/symlinks.xml b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
index bba84e369..1d4467a15 100644
--- a/chapter07/symlinks.xml
+++ b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,151 @@
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-symlinks">
   <?dbhtml filename="symlinks.html"?>
 
-  <title>Creating Custom Symlinks to Devices</title>
+  <title>Managing Devices</title>
+
+  <sect2>
+
+    <title>Network Devices</title>
+
+    <para>Udev, by default, names network devices according to Firmware/BIOS
+    data or physical characteristics like the bus, slot, or MAC address.  The
+    purpose of this naming convention is to ensure that network devices are
+    named consistently and not based on the time the network card was
+    discovered.  For example, on a computer having two network cards made by
+    Intel and Realtek, the network card manufactured by Intel may become eth0
+    and the Realtek card becomes eth1. In some cases, after a reboot the cards
+    get renumbered the other way around.</para>
+    
+    <para>In the new naming scheme, typical network device names would then
+    be something like enp5s0 or wlp3s0.  If this naming convention is not
+    desired, the traditional naming scheme or a custom scheme can be
+    implemented.</para>
+
+    <sect3>
+      <title>Disabling Persistent Naming on the Kernel Command Line</title>
+   
+      <para>The traditional naming scheme using eth0, eth1, etc can be
+      restored by adding <userinput>net.ifnames=0</userinput> on the 
+      kernel command line.  This is most appropriate for those systems
+      that have only one ethernet device of the same type.  Laptops
+      often have multiple ethernet connections that are named eth0 and 
+      wlan0 and are also candidates for this method.  The command line 
+      is passed in the GRUB configuration file. 
+      See <xref linkend="grub-cfg"/>.</para>
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
+      <title>Creating Custom Udev Rules</title>
+   
+      <para>The naming scheme can be customized by creating custom Udev
+      rules.  A script has been included that generates the initial rules.
+      Generate these rules by running:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash /lib/udev/init-net-rules.sh</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para> Now, inspect th
+      <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename> file, to
+      find out which name was assigned to which network device:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</userinput></screen>
+
+      <note><para>In some cases such as when MAC addresess have been assigned to
+      a network card manually or in a virtual environment such as Qemu or Xen,
+      the network rules file may not have been generated because addresses
+      are not consistently assigned.  In these cases, this method cannot
+      be used.</para></note>
+  
+      <para>The file begins with a comment block followed by two lines for each
+      NIC. The first line for each NIC is a commented description showing its
+      hardware IDs (e.g. its PCI vendor and device IDs, if it's a PCI card),
+      along with its driver in parentheses, if the driver can be found. Neither
+      the hardware ID nor the driver is used to determine which name to give an
+      interface; this information is only for reference. The second line is the
+      Udev rule that matches this NIC and actually assigns it a name.</para>
+  
+      <para>All Udev rules are made up of several keys, separated by commas and
+      optional whitespace. This rule's keys and an explanation of each of them
+      are as follows:</para>
+  
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>SUBSYSTEM=="net"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore
+          devices that are not network cards.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>ACTION=="add"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore this
+          rule for a uevent that isn't an add ("remove" and "change" uevents also
+          happen, but don't need to rename network interfaces).</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>DRIVERS=="?*"</literal> - This exists so that Udev will
+          ignore VLAN or bridge sub-interfaces (because these sub-interfaces do
+          not have drivers). These sub-interfaces are skipped because the name
+          that would be assigned would collide with their parent devices.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>ATTR{address}</literal> - The value of this key is the
+          NIC's MAC address.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>ATTR{type}=="1"</literal> - This ensures the rule only
+          matches the primary interface in the case of certain wireless drivers,
+          which create multiple virtual interfaces. The secondary interfaces are
+          skipped for the same reason that VLAN and bridge sub-interfaces are
+          skipped: there would be a name collision otherwise.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para><literal>NAME</literal> - The value of this key is the name that
+          Udev will assign to this interface.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+  
+      <para>The value of <literal>NAME</literal> is the important part. Make sure
+      you know which name has been assigned to each of your network cards before
+      proceeding, and be sure to use that <literal>NAME</literal> value when
+      creating your configuration files below.</para>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
+      <title>Custom Naming in Systemd</title>
+   
+      <para>Network interface names can also be customized with a set of
+      files spcific to systemd.  A file with a name such as 10-eth0.link
+      in the /etc/systemd/network directory can set an interface name. All
+      files in the directory will be applied in lexical order.  Files
+      in the /lib/systemd/network directory with the same name as those
+      in /etc/systemd/network will be overridden.  See the man page
+      for systemd.link for a full explanation.</para>
+
+      <para>An example file looks like:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump">[Match]
+MACAddress=12:34:56:78:9a:bc
+Driver=brcmsmac
+Path=pci-0000:02:00.0-*
+Type=wlan
+Virtualization=no
+Host=my-laptop
+Architecture=x86-64
+
+[Link]
+Name=wireless0
+MTUBytes=1450
+BitsPerSecond=10M
+WakeOnLan=magic
+MACAddress=cb:a9:87:65:43:21</screen>
+
+    <para>The [Match] section specifies when to apply the rule.  In 
+    the example above, the entries can be shortened to the minimum 
+    needed to uniquely identify the network device.  Similarly,
+    the [Link] section only needs to specify the changes from the 
+    default that are desired.  In many cases, the only thing needed is 
+    the Name entry.</para>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+  </sect2>
 
   <sect2>
 
@@ -108,7 +252,7 @@
     <filename>/dev/video1</filename> refers to the tuner, and sometimes
     after a reboot the order changes to the opposite one.
     For all classes of hardware except sound cards and network cards, this is
-    fixable by creating udev rules for custom persistent symlinks.
+    fixable by creating Udev rules for custom persistent symlinks.
     The case of network cards is covered separately in
     <xref linkend="ch-scripts-network"/>, and sound card configuration can
     be found in <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/devices.html">BLFS</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/chapter07/sysd-custom.xml b/chapter07/sysd-custom.xml
index 7f3d4864b..e5872ece9 100644
--- a/chapter07/sysd-custom.xml
+++ b/chapter07/sysd-custom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-sysd-custom">
   <?dbhtml filename="sysd-custom.html"?>
 
-  <title>Systemd Customization</title>
+  <title>Systemd Usage and Confiuration</title>
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-sysd-custom">
     <primary sortas="e-Systemd">Systemd Customization</primary>
@@ -98,6 +98,143 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-systemd-console">
+    <title>Setting Console Fonts and Keyboard</title>
+
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-systemd-console">
+      <primary sortas="d-console">systemd console</primary>
+      <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+  
+    <para>This section discusses how to configure the
+    <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> system service, which configures
+    the virtual console font and console keymap.</para>
+  
+    <para>The <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> service reads the
+    <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file for configuration
+    information. Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various
+    language-specific HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
+    url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>.
+    Examine <command>localectl list-keymaps</command> output for a list of
+    valid console keymaps. Look in
+    <filename class="directory">/usr/share/consolefonts</filename>
+    directory for valid screen fonts.</para>
+  
+    <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file should contain lines
+    of the form: VARIABLE="value". The following variables are recognized:</para>
+  
+    <variablelist>
+  
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>KEYMAP</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This variable specifies the key mapping table for the keyboard. If
+          unset, it defaults to <literal>us</literal>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+  
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>KEYMAP_TOGGLE</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This variable can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and
+          is unset by default.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>FONT</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This variable specifies the font used by the virtual
+          console.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>FONT_MAP</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This variable specifies the console map to be used.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+  
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>FONT_UNIMAP</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This variable specifies the unicode font map.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+  
+    </variablelist>
+  
+    <para>An example for a German keyboard and console is given below:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/vconsole.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>KEYMAP=de-latin1
+FONT=Lat2-Terminus16</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>You can change KEYMAP value at runtime by using the
+    <command>localectl</command> utility:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>localectl set-keymap MAP</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note><para>Please note that <command>localectl</command> command can
+    be used  only on a system booted with Systemd.</para></note>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2>
+    <title>Clock Configuration</title>
+
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-clock">
+      <primary sortas="d-clock">clock</primary>
+    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
+  
+    <para>This section discusses how to configure the
+    <command>systemd-timedated</command> system service, which configures
+    system clock and timezone.</para>
+  
+    <para><command>systemd-timedated</command> reads
+    <filename>/etc/adjtime</filename>, and depending on the contents of the file,
+    it sets the clock to either UTC or local time.  Create the
+    <filename>/etc/adjtime</filename> file with the following contents <emphasis>if your
+    hardware clock is set to local time</emphasis>:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/adjtime &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>0.0 0 0.0
+0
+LOCAL</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>If <filename>/etc/adjtime</filename> isn't present at first boot,
+    <command>systemd-timedated</command> will assume that hardware clock is
+    set to UTC and create the file using that setting.</para>
+
+    <para>You can also use the <command>timedatectl</command> utility to tell
+    <command>systemd-timedated</command> if your hardware clock is set to
+    UTC or local time:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>timedatectl set-local-rtc 1</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para><command>timedatectl</command> can also be used to change system time and
+    time zone.</para>
+
+    <para>To change your current system time, issue:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>timedatectl set-time YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Hardware clock will also be updated accordingly.</para>
+
+    <para>To change your current time zone, issue:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>timedatectl set-timezone TIMEZONE</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>You can get list of available time zones by running:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>timedatectl list-timezones</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note><para>The <command>timedatectl</command> command can
+    be used only on a system booted with Systemd.</para></note>
+
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2>
     <title>Debugging the Boot Sequence</title>
 
diff --git a/chapter07/udev.xml b/chapter07/udev.xml
index 7e11388d8..f8a73d8e9 100644
--- a/chapter07/udev.xml
+++ b/chapter07/udev.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-udev">
   <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
 
-  <title>Device and Module Handling on an LFS System</title>
+  <title>Overview of Device and Module Handling</title>
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-udev">
     <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@
   </indexterm>
 
   <para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the Udev
-  package. Before we go into the details regarding how this works,
-  a brief history of previous methods of handling devices is in
+  package as a part of systemd. Before we go into the details regarding how
+  this works, a brief history of previous methods of handling devices is in
   order.</para>
 
-  <para>Linux systems in general traditionally use a static device creation
-  method, whereby a great many device nodes are created under <filename
+  <para>Linux systems in general traditionally used a static device creation
+  method, whereby a great many device nodes were created under <filename
   class="directory">/dev</filename> (sometimes literally thousands of nodes),
-  regardless of whether the corresponding hardware devices actually exist. This
-  is typically done via a <command>MAKEDEV</command> script, which contains a
+  regardless of whether the corresponding hardware devices actually existed. This
+  was typically done via a <command>MAKEDEV</command> script, which contains a
   number of calls to the <command>mknod</command> program with the relevant
   major and minor device numbers for every possible device that might exist in
   the world.</para>
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
     device names are allowed to be configurable, then the device naming policy
     should be up to a system administrator, not imposed on them by any
     particular developer(s). The <systemitem
-    class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> file system also suffers from race
-    conditions that are inherent in its design and cannot be fixed without a
+    class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> file system also suffered from race
+    conditions that were inherent in its design and could not be fixed without a
     substantial revision to the kernel. It was marked as deprecated for a long
     period &ndash; due to a lack of maintenance &ndash; and was finally removed
     from the kernel in June, 2006.</para>
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
     <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> came to be. The job of
     <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> is to export a view of
     the system's hardware configuration to userspace processes. With this
-    userspace-visible representation, the possibility of seeing a userspace
+    userspace-visible representation, the possibility of developing a userspace
     replacement for <systemitem class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> became
     much more realistic.</para>
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 
       <para>Device files are created by the kernel by the <systemitem
       class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> filesystem.  Any driver that
-      wishes to register a device node will go through <systemitem
+      wishes to register a device node will go through the <systemitem
       class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> (via the driver core) to do it.
       When a <systemitem class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> instance is
       mounted on <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>, the device node
@@ -113,53 +113,12 @@
       change its permissions, owner, or group, or modify the internal
       <command>udevd</command> database entry (name) for that object.</para>
 
-      <para>The rules in these three directories are numbered in a similar
-      fashion to the LFS-Bootscripts package and all three directories are
-      merged together. If <command>udevd</command> can't find a rule for the
-      device it is creating, it will leave the permissions and ownership at
-      whatever <systemitem class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> used
-      initially.</para> </sect3>
-
-    <sect3>
-      <title>Udev Bootscripts</title>
-
-      <para>The first LFS bootscript,
-      <filename>/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs</filename> will copy any devices
-      located in <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> to
-      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>. This is necessary because
-      some devices, directories, and symlinks are needed before the dynamic
-      device handling processes are available during the early stages of
-      booting a system, or are required by <command>udevd</command> itself.
-      Creating static device nodes in <filename
-      class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> also provides an easy
-      workaround for devices that are not supported by the dynamic device
-      handling infrastructure.</para>
-
-      <para>The <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/udev</filename> initscript starts
-      <command>udevd</command>, triggers any "coldplug" devices that have
-      already been created by the kernel and waits for any rules to complete.
-      The script also unsets the uevent handler from the default of
-      <filename>/sbin/hotplug </filename>.  This is done because the kernel no
-      longer needs to call out to an external binary.  Instead
-      <command>udevd</command> will listen on a netlink socket for uevents that
-      the kernel raises.</para>
-
-      <para>The <command>/etc/rc.d/init.d/udev_retry</command> initscript takes
-      care of re-triggering events for subsystems whose rules may rely on
-      filesystems that are not mounted until the <command>mountfs</command>
-      script is run (in particular, <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
-      and <filename class="directory">/var</filename> may cause this).  This
-      script runs after the <command>mountfs</command> script, so those rules
-      (if re-triggered) should succeed the second time around.  It is
-      configured from the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/udev_retry</filename> file;
-      any words in this file other than comments are considered subsystem names
-      to trigger at retry time.  To find the subsystem of a device, use
-      <command>udevadm info --attribute-walk &lt;device&gt;</command> where
-      &lt;device&gt; is an absolute path in /dev or /sys such as /dev/sr0 or
-      /sys/class/rtc.</para>
-
-    </sect3>
-
+      <para>The rules in these three directories are numbered and all three
+      directories are merged together. If <command>udevd</command> can't find a
+      rule for the device it is creating, it will leave the permissions and
+      ownership at whatever <systemitem
+      class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem> used initially.</para> </sect3>
+      
     <sect3>
       <title>Module Loading</title>
 
@@ -314,27 +273,6 @@
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3>
-      <title>Udev does not create a device</title>
-
-      <para>Further text assumes that the driver is built statically into the
-      kernel or already loaded as a module, and that you have already checked
-      that Udev doesn't create a misnamed device.</para>
-
-      <para>Udev has no information needed to create a device node if a kernel
-      driver does not export its data to <systemitem
-      class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem>.
-      This is most common with third party drivers from outside the kernel
-      tree. Create a static device node in
-      <filename>/lib/udev/devices</filename> with the appropriate major/minor
-      numbers (see the file <filename>devices.txt</filename> inside the kernel
-      documentation or the documentation provided by the third party driver
-      vendor). The static device node will be copied to
-      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> by the
-      <command>udev</command> bootscript.</para>
-
-    </sect3>
-
-    <sect3>
       <title>Device naming order changes randomly after rebooting</title>
 
       <para>This is due to the fact that Udev, by design, handles uevents and
diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml
index 3250cd328..3eb323a6e 100644
--- a/chapter07/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter07/usage.xml
@@ -2,32 +2,36 @@
 <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  <!ENTITY site               SYSTEM "../appendices/rc.site.script">
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-usage">
   <?dbhtml filename="usage.html"?>
 
-  <title>How Do the System V Bootscripts Work?</title>
+  <title>System V Bootscript Usage and Configuration</title>
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-usage">
     <primary sortas="a-Bootscripts">Bootscripts</primary>
     <secondary>usage</secondary>
   </indexterm>
 
-  <para>Linux uses a special booting facility named SysVinit that is based on a
-  concept of <emphasis>run-levels</emphasis>. It can be quite different from one
-  system to another, so it cannot be assumed that because things worked in one
-  particular Linux distribution, they should work the same in LFS too. LFS has its
-  own way of doing things, but it respects generally accepted standards.</para>
-
-  <para>SysVinit (which will be referred to as <quote>init</quote> from now on)
-  works using a run-levels scheme. There are seven (numbered 0 to 6) run-levels
-  (actually, there are more run-levels, but they are for special cases and are
-  generally not used. See <filename>init(8)</filename> for more details), and
-  each one of those corresponds to the actions the computer is supposed to
-  perform when it starts up. The default run-level is 3. Here are the
-  descriptions of the different run-levels as they are implemented:</para>
+  <sect2>
+    <title>How Do the System V Bootscripts Work?</title>
+
+    <para>Linux uses a special booting facility named SysVinit that is based on a
+    concept of <emphasis>run-levels</emphasis>. It can be quite different from one
+    system to another, so it cannot be assumed that because things worked in one
+    particular Linux distribution, they should work the same in LFS too. LFS has its
+    own way of doing things, but it respects generally accepted standards.</para>
+  
+    <para>SysVinit (which will be referred to as <quote>init</quote> from now on)
+    works using a run-levels scheme. There are seven (numbered 0 to 6) run-levels
+    (actually, there are more run-levels, but they are for special cases and are
+    generally not used. See <filename>init(8)</filename> for more details), and
+    each one of those corresponds to the actions the computer is supposed to
+    perform when it starts up. The default run-level is 3. Here are the
+    descriptions of the different run-levels as they are implemented:</para>
 
 <literallayout>0: halt the computer
 1: single-user mode
@@ -37,6 +41,8 @@
 5: same as 4, it is usually used for GUI login (like X's <command>xdm</command> or KDE's <command>kdm</command>)
 6: reboot the computer</literallayout>
 
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 id="conf-sysvinit" role="configuration">
   <title>Configuring Sysvinit</title>
 
@@ -106,9 +112,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
   persistent across boots, however it is appended to the more permanent file
   <filename>/var/log/boot.log</filename> at the end of the boot process.</para>
 
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 id="init-levels" >
+  <sect3 id="init-levels" >
   <title>Changing Run Levels</title>
 
   <para>Changing run-levels is done with <command>init
@@ -200,6 +204,430 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
   it is your own LFS system). The files given here are an example of how
   it can be done.</para>
 
+  </sect3>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-clock">
+    <title>Configuring the System Clock</title>
+
+    <sect3 id="ch-scripts-setclock">
+    <title>System V Clock Configuration</title>
+
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-setclock">
+      <primary sortas="d-setclock">setclock</primary>
+    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
+
+    <para>The <command>setclock</command> script reads the time from the hardware
+    clock, also known as the BIOS or the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
+    (CMOS) clock. If the hardware clock is set to UTC, this script will convert the
+    hardware clock's time to the local time using the
+    <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file (which tells the
+    <command>hwclock</command> program which timezone the user is in). There is no
+    way to detect whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC, so this
+    needs to be configured manually.</para>
+
+    <para>The <command>setclock</command> is run via
+    <application>udev</application> when the kernel detects the hardware
+    capability upon boot.  It can also be run manually with the stop parameter to
+    store the system time to the CMOS clock.</para>
+
+    <para>If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC,
+    find out by running the <userinput>hwclock --localtime --show</userinput>
+    command. This will display what the current time is according to the hardware
+    clock. If this time matches whatever your watch says, then the hardware clock is
+    set to local time. If the output from <command>hwclock</command> is not local
+    time, chances are it is set to UTC time. Verify this by adding or subtracting
+    the proper amount of hours for the timezone to the time shown by
+    <command>hwclock</command>. For example, if you are currently in the MST
+    timezone, which is also known as GMT -0700, add seven hours to the local
+    time.</para>
+
+    <para>Change the value of the <envar>UTC</envar> variable below
+    to a value of <parameter>0</parameter> (zero) if the hardware clock
+    is <emphasis>not</emphasis> set to UTC time.</para>
+
+    <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/sysconfig/clock</filename> by running
+    the following:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/clock &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/clock
+
+UTC=1
+
+# Set this to any options you might need to give to hwclock,
+# such as machine hardware clock type for Alphas.
+CLOCKPARAMS=
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/clock</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>A good hint explaining how to deal with time on LFS is available
+    at <ulink url="&hints-root;time.txt"/>. It explains issues such as
+    time zones, UTC, and the <envar>TZ</envar> environment variable.</para>
+
+    <note><para>The CLOCKPARAMS and UTC paramaters may be alternatively set
+    in the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> file.</para></note>
+
+     </sect3>
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-console">
+  <?dbhtml filename="console.html"?>
+
+  <title>Configuring the Linux Console</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-console">
+    <primary sortas="d-console">console</primary>
+    <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <para>This section discusses how to configure the <command>console</command>
+  bootscript that sets up the keyboard map, console font and console kernel log
+  level. If non-ASCII characters (e.g., the copyright sign, the British pound
+  sign and Euro symbol) will not be used and the keyboard is a U.S. one, much
+  of this section can be skipped. Without the configuration file, (or
+  equivalent settings in <filename>rc.site</filename>), the
+  <command>console</command> bootscript will do nothing.</para>
+
+  <para>The <command>console</command> script reads the
+  <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file for configuration
+  information.  Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various
+  language-specific HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
+  url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>. If still in
+  doubt, look in the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/keymaps</filename>
+  and <filename class="directory">/usr/share/consolefonts</filename> directories
+  for valid keymaps and screen fonts. Read <filename>loadkeys(1)</filename> and
+  <filename>setfont(8)</filename> manual pages to determine the correct
+  arguments for these programs.</para>
+
+  <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file should contain lines
+  of the form: VARIABLE="value". The following variables are recognized:</para>
+  <variablelist>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>LOGLEVEL</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This variable specifies the log level for kernel messages sent
+        to the console as set by <command>dmesg</command>. Valid levels are
+        from "1" (no messages) to "8". The default level is "7".</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>KEYMAP</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
+        <command>loadkeys</command> program, typically, the name of keymap
+        to load, e.g., <quote>es</quote>. If this variable is not set, the
+        bootscript will not run the <command>loadkeys</command> program,
+        and the default kernel keymap will be used.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This (rarely used) variable
+        specifies the arguments for the second call to the
+        <command>loadkeys</command> program. This is useful if the stock keymap
+        is not completely satisfactory and a small adjustment has to be made. E.g.,
+        to include the Euro sign into a keymap that normally doesn't have it,
+        set this variable to <quote>euro2</quote>.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>FONT</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
+        <command>setfont</command> program. Typically, this includes the font
+        name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character
+        map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font
+        together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map
+        (as it is appropriate in the USA),
+        <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
+        set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>.
+        In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for
+        conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus
+        the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the
+        composed key codes in the keymap.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>UNICODE</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Set this variable to <quote>1</quote>, <quote>yes</quote> or
+        <quote>true</quote> in order to put the
+        console into UTF-8 mode. This is useful in UTF-8 based locales and
+        harmful otherwise.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>LEGACY_CHARSET</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>For many keyboard layouts, there is no stock Unicode keymap in
+        the Kbd package. The <command>console</command> bootscript will
+        convert an available keymap to UTF-8 on the fly if this variable is
+        set to the encoding of the available non-UTF-8 keymap.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+
+  <para>Some examples:</para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>For a non-Unicode setup, only the KEYMAP and FONT variables are
+      generally needed. E.g., for a Polish setup, one would use:</para>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+
+KEYMAP="pl2"
+FONT="lat2a-16 -m 8859-2"
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>As mentioned above, it is sometimes necessary to adjust a
+      stock keymap slightly. The following example adds the Euro symbol to the
+      German keymap:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+
+KEYMAP="de-latin1"
+KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
+FONT="lat0-16 -m 8859-15"
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>The following is a Unicode-enabled example for Bulgarian, where a
+      stock UTF-8 keymap exists:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+
+UNICODE="1"
+KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
+FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Due to the use of a 512-glyph LatArCyrHeb-16 font in the previous
+      example, bright colors are no longer available on the Linux console unless
+      a framebuffer is used. If one wants to have bright colors without
+      framebuffer and can live without characters not belonging to his language,
+      it is still possible to use a language-specific 256-glyph font, as
+      illustrated below:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+
+UNICODE="1"
+KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
+FONT="cyr-sun16"
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from
+      ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+
+UNICODE="1"
+KEYMAP="de-latin1"
+KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
+LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
+FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
+
+# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Some keymaps have dead keys (i.e., keys that don't produce a
+      character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced
+      by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press
+      Ctrl+. A E to get &AElig;</quote> in the default keymap).
+      Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the
+      keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together
+      are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European
+      languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
+      characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
+      UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
+      sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>alpha</quote>.
+      The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
+      X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
+      handling.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>For Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some other languages, the Linux
+      console cannot be configured to display the needed characters. Users
+      who need such languages should install the X Window System, fonts that
+      cover the necessary character ranges, and the proper input method (e.g.,
+      SCIM, it supports a wide variety of languages).</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <!-- Added because folks keep posting their console file with X questions
+  to blfs-support list -->
+  <note>
+    <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file only controls
+    the Linux text console localization. It has nothing to do with setting
+    the proper keyboard layout and terminal fonts in the X Window System, with
+    ssh sessions or with a serial console. In such situations, limitations
+    mentioned in the last two list items above do not apply.</para>
+  </note>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-createfiles">
+    <title>Creating Files at Boot</title>
+  
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-createfiles">
+      <primary sortas="d-createfiles">File creation at boot</primary>
+      <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+  
+    <para>At times, it is desired to create files at boot time.  For instance,
+    the <filename class="directory">/tmp/.ICE-unix</filename> directory
+    may be desired.  This can be done by creating an entry in the
+    <filename>/etc/sysconfig/createfiles</filename> configuration script.
+    The format of this file is embedded in the comments of the default 
+    configuration file.</para>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-sysklogd">
+    <title>Configuring the sysklogd Script</title>
+  
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-sysklogd">
+      <primary sortas="d-sysklogd">sysklogd</primary>
+      <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+  
+    <para>The <filename>sysklogd</filename> script invokes the
+    <command>syslogd</command> program as a part of System V initialization.  The
+    <parameter>-m 0</parameter> option turns off the periodic timestamp mark that
+    <command>syslogd</command> writes to the log files every 20 minutes by
+    default.  If you want to turn on this periodic timestamp mark, edit
+    <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> and define the variable
+    SYSKLOGD_PARMS to the desired value.  For instance, to remove all parameters,
+    set the variable to a null value:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump">SYSKLOGD_PARMS=</screen>
+
+    <para>See <userinput>man syslogd</userinput> for more options.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="ch-scripts-site">
+    <title>The rc.site File</title>
+  
+    <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-site">
+      <primary sortas="a-rc.site">rc.site</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+  
+    <para>The optional <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> file contains
+    settings that are automatically set for each SystemV boot script.  It can
+    alternatively set the values specified in the <filename>hostname</filename>,
+    <filename>console</filename>, and <filename>clock</filename> files in the
+    <filename class='directory'>/etc/sysconfig/</filename> directory.  If the
+    associated variables are present in both these separate files and
+    <filename>rc.site</filename>, the values in the script specific files have
+    precedence. </para>
+  
+    <para><filename>rc.site</filename> also contains parameters that can
+    customize other aspects of the boot process.  Setting the IPROMPT variable
+    will enable selective running of bootscripts.  Other options are described
+    in the file comments.  The default version of the file is as follows:</para>
+  
+    <!-- Use role to fix a pdf generation problem -->
+    <screen role="auto">&site;</screen>
+  
+    <sect3>
+      <title>Customizing the Boot and Shutdown Scripts</title>
+  
+      <para>The LFS boot scripts boot and shut down a system in a fairly
+      efficient manner, but there are a few tweaks that you can make in the
+      rc.site file to improve speed even more and to adjust messages according
+      to your preferences. To do this, adjust the settings in
+      the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> file above.</para>
+  
+      <itemizedlist>
+  
+      <listitem><para>During the boot script <filename>udev</filename>, there is
+      a call to <command>udev settle</command> that requires some time to
+      complete. This time may or may not be required depending on devices present
+      in the system.  If you only have simple partitions and a single ethernet
+      card, the boot process will probably not need to wait for this command.  To
+      skip it, set the variable OMIT_UDEV_SETTLE=y.</para></listitem>
+  
+      <listitem><para>The boot script <filename>udev_retry</filename> also runs
+      <command>udev settle</command> by default.  This command is only needed by
+      default if the <filename class='directory'>/var</filename> directory is
+      separately mounted.  This is because the clock needs the file
+      <filename>/var/lib/hwclock/adjtime</filename>.  Other customizations may
+      also need to wait for udev to complete, but in many installations it is not
+      needed.  Skip the command by setting the variable OMIT_UDEV_RETRY_SETTLE=y.
+      </para></listitem>
+  
+      <listitem><para>By default, the file system checks are silent.  This can
+      appear to be a delay during the bootup process.  To turn on the
+      <command>fsck</command> output, set the variable VERBOSE_FSCK=y.
+      </para></listitem>
+  
+      <listitem><para>When rebooting, you may want to skip the filesystem check,
+      <command>fsck</command>, completely.  To do this, either create the file
+      <filename>/fastboot</filename> or reboot the system with the command
+      <command>/sbin/shutdown -f -r now</command>.  On the other hand, you can
+      force all file systems to be checked by creating
+      <filename>/forcefsck</filename> or running <command>shutdown</command> with
+      the <parameter>-F</parameter> parameter instead of <parameter>-f</parameter>.
+      </para>
+  
+      <para>Setting the variable FASTBOOT=y will disable <command>fsck</command>
+      during the boot process until it is removed.  This is not recommended
+      on a permanent basis.</para></listitem>
+  
+      <listitem><para>Normally, all files in the <filename
+      class='directory'>/tmp</filename> directory are deleted at boot time.
+      Depending on the number of files or directories present, this can cause a
+      noticeable delay in the boot process.  To skip removing these files set the
+      variable SKIPTMPCLEAN=y.</para></listitem>
+  
+      <listitem><para>During shutdown, the <command>init</command> program sends
+      a TERM signal to each program it has started (e.g. agetty), waits for a set
+      time (default 3 seconds), and sends each process a KILL signal and waits
+      again.  This process is repeated in the <command>sendsignals</command>
+      script for any processes that are not shut down by their own scripts.  The
+      delay for <command>init</command> can be set by passing a parameter.  For
+      example to remove the delay in <command>init</command>, pass the -t0
+      parameter when shutting down or rebooting (e.g.  <command>/sbin/shutdown
+      -t0 -r now</command>).  The delay for the  <command>sendsignals</command>
+      script can be skipped by setting the parameter
+      KILLDELAY=0.</para></listitem>
+  
+      </itemizedlist>
+  
+    </sect3>
+  </sect2>
 </sect1>