fcrontab – tables for driving fcron Description A fcrontab is a file containing all tables used by the fcron(8) daemon. In other words, it is the means for a user to tell the daemon "execute this command at this moment". Each user has his own fcrontab, whose commands are executed as his owner (only root…
fcron.conf – configuration file for fcron and fcrontab Description Abstract This page describes the syntax used for the configuration file of fcrontab(1), fcrondyn(1) and fcron(8). Blank lines, line beginning by a hash sign (#) (which are considered comments), leading blanks and tabs are ignored. Each line in a fcron.conf file is of the form name…
fb.modes – frame buffer modes file Description /etc/fb.modes contains an unlimited number of video mode descriptions. The general format of a video mode is: mode geometry <xres> <yres> <vxres> <vyres> <depth> timings <pixclock> <left> <right> <upper> <lower> <hslen> <vslen> options <value> endmode Options geometry options: xres visible horizontal resolution (in pixels) yres visible vertical resolution…
faxqueue – sendfax fax spool queue control files Synopsis /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F*/JOB Description The JOB files in the subdirectories of the outgoing fax spool directory, /var/spool/fax/outgoing build up a queue of faxes to be sent by faxrunq(1). They are created by faxspool(1), can be viewed with faxq(1), and be deleted by faxrm(1). Format The format of the…
failsafe_context – The SELinux fail safe context configuration file Description The failsafe_context file allows SELinux-aware applications such as PAM(8) to obtain a known valid login context for an administrator if no valid default entries can be found elsewhere. selinux_failsafe_context_path(3) will return the active policy path to this file. The default failsafe context file is: /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/failsafe_context…
faillog – login failure logging file Description /var/log/faillog maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account. The file contains fixed length records, indexed by numerical UID. Each record contains the count of login failures since the last successful login; the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled; the line…
faillock.conf – pam_faillock configuration file Description faillock.conf provides a way to configure the default settings for locking the user after multiple failed authentication attempts. This file is read by the pam_faillock module and is the preferred method over configuring pam_faillock directly. The file has a very simple name = value format with possible comments starting…
faidx – an index enabling random access to FASTA and FASTQ files Synopsis file.fa.fai, file.fasta.fai, file.fq.fai, file.fastq.fai Description Using an fai index file in conjunction with a FASTA/FASTQ file containing reference sequences enables efficient access to arbitrary regions within those reference sequences. The index file typically has the same filename as the corresponding FASTA/FASTQ file,…
ext2 – the second extended file system ext3 – the third extended file system ext4 – the fourth extended file system Description The second, third, and fourth extended file systems, or ext2, ext3, and ext4 as they are commonly known, are Linux file systems that have historically been the default file system for many Linux…
ext2 – the second extended file system ext3 – the third extended file system ext4 – the fourth extended file system Description The second, third, and fourth extended file systems, or ext2, ext3, and ext4 as they are commonly known, are Linux file systems that have historically been the default file system for many Linux…
ext2 – the second extended file system ext3 – the third extended file system ext4 – the fourth extended file system Description The second, third, and fourth extended file systems, or ext2, ext3, and ext4 as they are commonly known, are Linux file systems that have historically been the default file system for many Linux…
ext – format of .ext files produced by Magic’s hierarchical extractor Description Magic’s extractor produces a .ext file for each cell in a hierarchical design. The .ext file for cell name is name.ext. This file contains three kinds of information: environmental information (scaling, timestamps, etc), the extracted circuit corresponding to the mask geometry of cell…
exports – NFS server export table Description The file /etc/exports contains a table of local physical file systems on an NFS server that are accessible to NFS clients. The contents of the file are maintained by the server’s system administrator. Each file system in this table has a list of options and an access control…
expire.ctl – Configuration file for article expiration Description The file pathetc/expire.ctl is the default configuration file for expire and expireover, which read it at start-up. It serves two purposes: it defines how long history entries for expired or rejected articles are remembered, and it determines how long articles stored on the server are retained. Normally,…
expire.ctl – Configuration file for article expiration Description The file pathetc/expire.ctl is the default configuration file for expire and expireover, which read it at start-up. It serves two purposes: it defines how long history entries for expired or rejected articles are remembered, and it determines how long articles stored on the server are retained. Normally,…
events – format of event files used by the upstart init system Description upstart works on the basis of event files that describe jobs that should be managed. This includes the particulars about what binary or shell script code should executed while the job is running, and which events can cause the job to be…
etter.conf – Ettercap configuration file Description etter.conf is the configuration file that determines ettercap behaviour. It is always loaded at startup and it configures some attributes used at runtime. The file contains entries of the form: [section] entry = value … Each entry defines a variable that can be customized. Every value MUST be an…
NAME ethers – Ethernet address to IP number database DESCRIPTION /etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding IP numbers, one line for each IP number: Ethernet-address IP-number The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB characters. A # at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends…
esmtprc – esmtp configuration file. Description A esmtp configuration file consists of several options. The options format is: keyword=value The equal sign is optional and can be replaced by whitespace. The value may be enclosed in simple or double quotes, in which case special characters can be escaped as in normal C strings. Comments are…
epylog.conf – epylog configuration Synopsis epylog config file is a simple plaintext file in win.ini style format. Location Epylog will look in /etc/epylog/epylog.conf by default, but you can override that by passing -c switch on the command line. [main] cfgdir This is where epylog should look for other configuration information, most notably, modules.d directory. See…