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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

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 /etc??”This directory contains most of the basic Linux system-configuration files.
Table 4-1 shows some /etc configuration files of interest.
 /etc/cron*??”Directories in this set contain files that define how the crond utility runs
applications on a daily (cron.daily), hourly (cron.hourly), monthly
(cron.monthly), or weekly (cron.weekly) schedule.
 /etc/cups??”Contains files used to configure the CUPS printing service.
 /etc/default??”Contains files that set default values for various utilities. For example,
the file for the useradd command defines the default group number, home directory,
password expiration date, shell, and skeleton directory (/etc/skel) that are used when
creating a new user account.
 /etc/httpd??”Contains a variety of files used to configure the behavior of your
Apache Web server (specifically, the httpd daemon process). (On some Linux systems,
/etc/apache is used instead.)
 /etc/init.d??”Contains the permanent copies of System V??“style run-level scripts.
These scripts are often linked from the /etc/rc?.d directories to have each service associated
with a script started or stopped for the particular run level. The ? is replaced by
the run-level number (0 through 6). (Slackware puts its run-level scripts in the
/etc/rc.


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