Environment variables

Variable used by both RPCAPI daemon and Test Agent daemon

  • ZONEMASTER_BACKEND_CONFIG_FILE: Set a custom path for the backend configuration file.

Variables used by RPCAPI daemon only

  • ZM_BACKEND_RPCAPI_LOGLEVEL: The threshold for emitting log entries. Default: info.

    Accepted values are:

    • trace
    • debug
    • info (also accepted: inform)
    • notice
    • warning (also accepted: warn)
    • error (also accepted: err)
    • critical (also accepted: crit, fatal)
    • alert
    • emergency

  • ZM_BACKEND_RPCAPI_LOGJSON: A boolean. When true, logs are written in JSON format.

  • ZM_BACKEND_RPCAPI_NO_LOGPID: A boolean. Controls the inclusion of PID in log entries.

  • ZM_BACKEND_RPCAPI_NO_LOGTIMESTAMP: A boolean. Controls the inclusion of timestamp log entries.

Variables used by unit test scripts

  • TARGET: Set the database to use. If empty or undefined, "SQLite" will be assumed. Accepted values are:

    • SQLite
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL

  • ZONEMASTER_RECORD: A boolean. When true, data is retrieved over the network and persisted to a data file. When false, data is retrieved from a data file.

Boolean variables

For boolean environment variables two values are falsy: the empty string, and the string 0. Every other value is truthy. An unset boolean environment variable is false by default.