# Creating a daemon.yml File

The `cryptic-net daemon` process has generally sane defaults and does not need
to be configured for most users. However, in some cases it does, so this
document describes how to use the `daemon.yml` file to handle those cases.

## Create daemon.yml

First, create a `daemon.yml` file. You can create a new `daemon.yml` with
default values filled in by doing:

```
cryptic-net daemon --dump-config > /path/to/daemon.yml
```

If you open that file in a text editor you can view all default values that
`cryptic-net daemon` ships with, as well as documentation for all configurable
parameters. Feel free to edit this file as needed.

## Using daemon.yml

With the `daemon.yml` created and configured, you can configure your daemon
process to use it by passing it as the `-c` argument:

```
sudo cryptic-net daemon -c /path/to/daemon.yml
```

If you are an operator then your host should be running its `cryptic-net daemon`
process in systemd (see [Getting Started](getting-started.md) if
not), and you will need to modify the `cryptic-net.service` accordingly.