Re: etc directory

[Thornton Prime <thornton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:43 +0530, kaushal wrote:
> Hello all,
>          Iam not an admin,but out of my interest I want to know the
> significance of various "basic" configuration files and their usage in
> the /etc directory.Can someone kindly send me a link that would be
> useful in this aspect or share "your own" tutorial.

A critical sampling of these files are well documented in man pages. The
following commands will get you started:

  man 5 passwd
  man 5 shadow
  man 5 services
  man 5 hosts
  man 5 inittab

You can try the same with many of the other files in /etc/.


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Thornton Prime <thornton@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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