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.

Thanks in advance.

Regards-
kaushal.



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Hello kaushal,

Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 1:13:22 PM, you wrote:
k> Hello all,
k> Iam not an admin,but out of my interest I want to know the
k> significance of various "basic" configuration files and their usage =
in
k> the /etc directory.Can someone kindly send me a link that would be
k> useful in this aspect or share "your own" tutorial.

k> Thanks in advance.

there are many sites... I hope this one helps you:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/


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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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Use www.google.com

type linux and the filename and I am sure you will find plenty of
information.
----- Original Message -----
From: "kaushal" <kaushal [at] rocsys.com>
To: "admin" <linux-admin [at] vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:13 AM
Subject: etc directory


> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards-
> kaushal.
>
>
>
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* Adam Lang <aalang [at] rutgersinsurance.com> [2004-10-06 14:35]:
> Use www.google.com
>
> type linux and the filename and I am sure you will find plenty of
> information.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kaushal" <kaushal [at] rocsys.com>
> To: "admin" <linux-admin [at] vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:13 AM
> Subject: etc directory
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards-
>> kaushal.

Or you could even use

http://www.google.com/linux/ ;-)

Furthermore there is a *lot* of information on

http://www.tldp.org/

HTH
Stefan
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I guess I should have just said RTFM. ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Wimmer" <swimmer [at] gx.nl>
To: "admin" <linux-admin [at] vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: etc directory


> Or you could even use
>
> http://www.google.com/linux/ ;-)
>
> Furthermore there is a *lot* of information on
>
> http://www.tldp.org/
>
> HTH
> Stefan
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