Section 5: file formats
nm-settings-keyfile – Description of keyfile settings plugin Description NetworkManager is based on the concept of connection profiles that contain network configuration (see nm-settings(5) for details). The profiles can be stored in various formats. NetworkManager uses plugins for reading and writing the data. The plugins can be configured in NetworkManager.conf(5). The keyfile plugin is the generic…
nm-settings-ifcfg-rh – Description of ifcfg-rh settings plugin Description NetworkManager is based on the concept of connection profiles that contain network configuration (see nm-settings(5) for details). The profiles can be stored in various formats. NetworkManager uses plugins for reading and writing the data. The plugins can be configured in NetworkManager.conf(5). The ifcfg-rh plugin is used on…
nm-settings-dbus – Description of settings and properties of NetworkManager connection profiles on the D-Bus API Description NetworkManager is based on a concept of connection profiles, sometimes referred to as connections only. These connection profiles contain a network configuration. When NetworkManager activates a connection profile on a network device the configuration will be applied and an…
nisplus_table – Postfix NIS+ client Synopsis postmap -q "string" "nisplus:[name=%s];name.name." postmap -q – "nisplus:[name=%s];name.name." <inputfile Description The Postfix mail system uses optional lookup tables. These tables are usually in dbm or db format. Alternatively, lookup tables can be specified as NIS+ databases. To find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix system supports use…
nilfs_cleanerd.conf – nilfs_cleanerd(8) configuration file Description The nilfs_cleanerd.conf file is the configuration file for the nilfs_cleanerd(8) which reclaims disk space of the NILFS2 filesystem. This file specifies the parameters related to garbage collection (GC) and behaviour of the daemon program. The file contains keyword argument pairs or keyword-only directives, one per line. Lines starting with…
/var/yp/nicknames – nickname translation table for NIS maps Description nicknames contains a list of aliases and the corresponding NIS maps. There is one entry per line. The default nicknames table looks like: passwd passwd.byname group group.byname networks networks.byaddr hosts hosts.byname protocols protocols.bynumber services services.byname aliases mail.aliases ethers ethers.byname See Also ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypwhich(1) Author…
ngircd.conf – configuration file of ngIRCd Synopsis /etc/ngircd.conf Description ngircd.conf is the configuration file of the ngircd(8) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon which you should adept to your local preferences and needs. File Format The file consists of sections and parameters. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues…
ngircd.conf – configuration file of ngIRCd Synopsis /etc/ngircd.conf Description ngircd.conf is the configuration file of the ngircd(8) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon, which must be customized to the local preferences and needs. Most variables can be modified while the ngIRCd daemon is already running: It will reload its configuration file when a HUP signal or…
nfsmount.conf – Configuration file for NFS mounts Synopsis Configuration file for NFS mounts that allows options to be set globally, per server or per mount point. Description The configuration file is made up of multiple sections followed by variables associated with that section. A section is defined by a string enclosed by [ and ]…
nfsmount.conf – Configuration file for NFS mounts Synopsis Configuration file for NFS mounts that allows options to be set globally, per server or per mount point. Description The configuration file is made up of multiple sections followed by variables associated with that section. A section is defined by a string enclosed by [ and ]…
nfs4_acl – NFSv4 Access Control Lists Description An ACL is a list of permissions associated with a file or directory and consists of one or more Access Control Entries (ACEs). NFSv4 ACLs provide finer granularity than typical POSIX read/write/execute permissions and are similar to CIFS ACLs. A sample NFSv4 file ACL might look like the…
nfs – fstab format and options for the nfs file systems Synopsis /etc/fstab Description NFS is an Internet Standard protocol created by Sun Microsystems in 1984. NFS was developed to allow file sharing between systems residing on a local area network. The Linux NFS client supports three versions of the NFS protocol: NFS version 2…
nfs.conf – general configuration for NFS daemons and tools Synopsis /etc/nfs.conf Description This file contains site-specific configuration for various NFS daemons and other processes. Most configuration can also be passed to processes via command line arguments, but it can be more convenient to have a central file. In particular, this encourages consistent configuration across different…
newsx.conf – newsx standard profile Description newsx.conf is a profile file read by newsx(8) before processing the command line arguments. It contains standard newsx(8) command line options. The leading dashes for options are mandatory. Several lines may be used. Blank lines and lines starting with a ‘#’ will be treated as comments. Note that it…
newslog – Description of INN log files Description Most log files created by Usenet programs reside in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf and have a ".log" extension. Several versions are usually kept with an additional extension such as .1, .2, etc. — the higher the number, the older the log. These old versions are…
newsgroups – List of newsgroups and their short descriptions Description The file pathdb/newsgroups contains a list of newsgroups for which a short description is available. This file is generally updated by controlchan(8) whenever a control message is received; it is used by nnrpd in response to LIST NEWSGROUPS and is only meant to provide information…
newsfeeds – Determine where Usenet articles are sent Description The file pathetc/newsfeeds specifies how incoming articles should be distributed to other programs and files on the server. It is parsed by the InterNetNews server innd(8) when it starts up, or when directed to by ctlinnd(8). innd doesn’t send articles to remote sites itself, so newsfeeds…
newscache.conf Synopsis /etc/newscache.conf Description The file /etc/newscache.conf defines all the NewsCache ‘s configuration options. It is also used for updatenews(8) ,which is responsible for submitting articles from the outgoing spool directory and prefetching newsgroups and newscacheclean(8), which cleans up the Cache. NewsCache is a free cache server for USENET News. NewsCache acts to news reading…
networks – network name information Description The file /etc/networks is a plain ASCII file that describes known DARPA networks and symbolic names for these networks. Each line represents a network and has the following structure: name number aliases … where the fields are delimited by spaces or tabs. Empty lines are ignored. The hash character…
networkd.conf, networkd.conf.d – Global Network configuration files Synopsis /etc/systemd/networkd.conf /etc/systemd/networkd.conf.d/*.conf /lib/systemd/networkd.conf.d/*.conf Description These configuration files control global network parameters. Currently the DHCP Unique Identifier (DUID). Configuration Directories And Precedence The default configuration is set during compilation, so configuration is only needed when it is necessary to deviate from those defaults. Initially, the main configuration file…