Section 5: file formats
xinetd.conf – Extended Internet Services Daemon configuration file Description xinetd.conf is the configuration file that determines the services provided by xinetd. Any line whose first non-white-space character is a ‘#’ is considered a comment line. Empty lines are ignored. The file contains entries of the form: service <service_name> { <attribute> <assign_op> <value> <value> … ……
xine – a free video player MRL (media resource locator) MRLs are similar to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following (see also the notes below): • Filesystem: file:<path> fifo:<path> stdin:/ • CD and DVD: dvd:/[device_name][/title[.part]] dvd:/DVD_image_file[/title[.part]] dvd:/DVD_directory[/title[.part]]…
xfs – layout, mount options, and supported file attributes for the XFS filesystem Description An XFS filesystem can reside on a regular disk partition or on a logical volume. An XFS filesystem has up to three parts: a data section, a log section, and a realtime section. Using the default mkfs.xfs(8) options, the realtime section…
xforms – A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems Synopsis Forms Library for X (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X Window Systems and runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as OpenVMS and OS2. Forms Library is too complex to be described in the "man" page format. Ask your system…
xferlog – ProFTPD server logfile Description The xferlog file contains logging information from the FTP server daemon, proftpd(8). This file usually is found in /var/log but can be located anywhere by using a proftpd(8) configuration directive. Each server entry is composed of a single line of the following form, with all fields being separated by…
xend-config.sxp – Xen daemon configuration file Synopsis /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp Description The xend(1) program requires xend-config.sxp to specify operating parameters which determine the behavior of the daemon at runtime. The parameters are specified in S-expression format. See the example configuration file in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp for details. Options The following lists the daemon configuration parameters: logfile The location of…
xawtvrc — TV apps config file Synopsis /etc/X11/xawtvrc $HOME/.xawtv Description xawtvrc is the config file originally used by xawtv only (that’s why the name xawtvrc). These days a number of other TV applications / utilities read it too to get configuration information from it. Both a global (/etc/X11/xawtvrc) and personal ($HOME/.xawtv) config file are used…
selabel_x – userspace SELinux labeling interface and configuration file format for the X Window System contexts backend. This backend is also used to determine the default context for labeling remotely connected X clients Synopsis #include <selinux/label.h> int selabel_lookup(struct selabel_handle *hnd, char **context, const char *object_name, int object_type); int selabel_lookup_raw(struct selabel_handle *hnd, char **context, const char…
wvdial.conf – wvdial configuration file Description When wvdial starts, it first loads its configuration from /etc/wvdial.conf, which contains basic information about the modem port, speed, and init string, along with information about your Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as the phone number, your username, and your password. The configuration file /etc/wvdial.conf is in Windows "ini"…
wvdial.conf – wvdial configuration file Description When wvdial starts, it first loads its configuration from /etc/wvdial.conf, which contains basic information about the modem port, speed, and init string, along with information about your Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as the phone number, your username, and your password. The configuration file /etc/wvdial.conf is in Windows "ini"…
utmp, wtmp – login records Synopsis #include <utmp.h> Description The utmp file allows one to discover information about who is currently using the system. There may be more users currently using the system, because not all programs use utmp logging. Warning: utmp must not be writable by the user class "other", because many system programs…
wpa_supplicant.conf – configuration file for wpa_supplicant Overview wpa_supplicant is configured using a text file that lists all accepted networks and security policies, including pre-shared keys. See the example configuration file, probably in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/, for detailed information about the configuration format and supported fields. All file paths in this configuration file should use full (absolute, not…
wpa_supplicant.conf – configuration file for wpa_supplicant Overview wpa_supplicant is configured using a text file that lists all accepted networks and security policies, including pre-shared keys. See the example configuration file, probably in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/, for detailed information about the configuration format and supported fields. All file paths in this configuration file should use full (absolute, not…
wnintro – introduction to descriptions of WordNet file formats Synopsis cntlist – format of cntlist and cntlist.rev files lexnames – list of lexicographer file names and numbers prologdb – description of Prolog database files senseidx – format of sense index file sensemap – mapping from senses in WordNet 2.1 to corresponding 3.0 senses wndb –…
noun.suffix, verb.suffix, adj.suffix, adv.suffix – WordNet lexicographer files that are input to grind(1) Description WordNet’s source files are written by lexicographers. They are the product of a detailed relational analysis of lexical semantics: a variety of lexical and semantic relations are used to represent the organization of lexical knowledge. Two kinds of building blocks are…
index.noun, data.noun, index.verb, data.verb, index.adj, data.adj, index.adv, data.adv – WordNet database files noun.exc, verb.exc. adj.exc adv.exc – morphology exception lists sentidx.vrb, sents.vrb – files used by search code to display sentences illustrating the use of some specific verbs Description For each syntactic category, two files are needed to represent the contents of the WordNet database…
wildmidi.cfg – Config file for libWildMidi Library libWildMidi Description Contains the patch configuration for libWildMidi and location of Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files. dir ~/guspats/ source /etc/wildmidi.cfg bank 0 0 acpiano.pat amp=110 env_time4=300 1 brpiano.pat amp=100 drumset 0 25 snarerol keep=env amp=225 note=60 26 snap note=65 Syntax guspat_editor_author_cant_read_so_fix_release_time_for_me Some patch file editors switch the 4th…
wildmidi.cfg – Config file for libWildMidi Library libWildMidi Description Contains the patch configuration for libWildMidi and location of Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files. dir ~/guspats/ source /etc/wildmidi.cfg bank 0 0 acpiano.pat amp=110 env_time4=300 1 brpiano.pat amp=100 drumset 0 25 snarerol keep=env amp=225 note=60 26 snap note=65 Syntax guspat_editor_author_cant_read_so_fix_release_time_for_me Some patch file editors switch the 4th…
wicd-wired-settings.conf – controls Wicd’s wireless network settings Description This file contains configuration information for wireless interfaces in Wicd. This file is located at /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf Settings bssid = <BSSID_of_network> This value can be found using iwconfig(8). essid = <ESSID_of_network> This value can be found using iwconfig(8). hidden = <True|False> This option notes whether the network’s ESSID…
wicd-wired-settings.conf – controls Wicd’s wired network settings Description This file contains configuration information for wired interfaces in Wicd. This file is located at /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf Settings default = <0|1> This option decides whether to use this profile as the default. 0 = do not use this profile as default. 1 = use this profile as default….