Section 5: file formats
mtools.conf – mtools configuration files Description This manual page describes the configuration files for mtools. They are called ∞/etc/mtools.confIntegral and ∞~/.mtoolsrcIntegral. If the environmental variable MTOOLSRC is set, its contents is used as the filename for a third configuration file. These configuration files describe the following items: * Global configuration flags and variables * Per…
mtools.conf – mtools configuration files Description This manual page describes the configuration files for mtools. They are called ∞/etc/mtools.confIntegral and ∞~/.mtoolsrcIntegral. If the environmental variable MTOOLSRC is set, its contents is used as the filename for a third configuration file. These configuration files describe the following items: * Global configuration flags and variables * Per…
mpd.conf – Music Player Daemon configuration file Description mpd.conf is the configuration file for mpd(1). If not specified on the command line, MPD first searches for it at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf then at ~/.mpdconf then at ~/.mpd/mpd.conf and then in /etc/mpd.conf. Lines beginning with a "#" character are comments. All other non-empty lines specify parameters and their…
motd – message of the day Description The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by pam_motd(8) after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk space than mail to…
motd.news – Message of the day information for feeders or readers Description Two files, found in pathetc, contain local information for news feeders or news readers in a free-form format. The entire files are returned verbatim to any client that issues the LIST MOTD command. This might be used for new information, notification of upcoming…
mosquitto.conf – the configuration file for mosquitto Synopsis mosquitto.conf Description mosquitto.conf is the configuration file for mosquitto. This file can reside anywhere as long as mosquitto can read it. By default, mosquitto does not need a configuration file and will use the default values listed below. See mosquitto(8) for information on how to load a…
mono-config – Mono runtime file format configuration Description The Mono runtime will load configuration data from the installation prefix /etc/mono/config file, the ~/.mono/config or from the file pointed by the MONO_CONFIG environment variable. For each assembly loaded a config file with the name: /path/to/the/assembly.exe.config is loaded as well as the ~/.mono/assemblies/ASSEMBLY/ASSEMBLY.EXT.config file. This file controls…
monitorix.conf – Configuration file for Monitorix. Description Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used on production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size may also be used to monitor embedded devices…
moduli – Diffie-Hellman moduli Description The /etc/ssh/moduli file contains prime numbers and generators for use by sshd(8) in the Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange key exchange method. New moduli may be generated with ssh-keygen1 using a two-step process. An initial candidate generation pass, using ssh-keygen -G calculates numbers that are likely to be useful. A second primality…
/etc/modules – kernel modules to load at boot time Description The /etc/modules file contains the names of kernel modules that are to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Options can only be specified using modprobe.d configuration files. Lines beginning with a ‘#’ are ignored. Example # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time….
modules.dep, modules.dep.bin – Module dependency information Synopsis /lib/modules/modules.dep /lib/modules/modules.dep.bin Description modules.dep.bin is a binary file generated by depmod listing the dependencies for every module in the directories under /lib/modules/version. It is used by kmod tools such as modprobe and libkmod. Its text counterpart is located in the same directory with the name modules.dep. The text…
modules.dep, modules.dep.bin – Module dependency information Synopsis /lib/modules/modules.dep /lib/modules/modules.dep.bin Description modules.dep.bin is a binary file generated by depmod listing the dependencies for every module in the directories under /lib/modules/version. It is used by kmod tools such as modprobe and libkmod. Its text counterpart is located in the same directory with the name modules.dep. The text…
modules-load.d – Configure kernel modules to load at boot Synopsis /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf /run/modules-load.d/*.conf /usr/lib/modules-load.d/*.conf Description systemd-modules-load.service(8) reads files from the above directories which contain kernel modules to load during boot in a static list. Each configuration file is named in the style of /etc/modules-load.d/program.conf. Note that it is usually a better idea to rely on the…
modules-load.d – Configure kernel modules to load at boot Synopsis /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf /run/modules-load.d/*.conf /usr/lib/modules-load.d/*.conf Description systemd-modules-load.service(8) reads files from the above directories which contain kernel modules to load during boot in a static list. Each configuration file is named in the style of /etc/modules-load.d/program.conf. Note that it is usually a better idea to rely on the…
modprobe.d – Configuration directory for modprobe Synopsis /lib/modprobe.d/*.conf /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf /run/modprobe.d/*.conf Description Because the modprobe command can add or remove more than one module, due to modules having dependencies, we need a method of specifying what options are to be used with those modules. All files underneath the /etc/modprobe.d directory which end with the .conf extension…
modprobe.d – Configuration directory for modprobe Synopsis /lib/modprobe.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib/modprobe.d/*.conf /run/modprobe.d/*.conf /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf Description Because the modprobe command can add or remove more than one module, due to modules having dependencies, we need a method of specifying what options are to be used with those modules. All files underneath the /etc/modprobe.d directory which end with the .conf…
moderators – Submission addresses for moderated groups Description When an unapproved article is posted locally to a moderated newsgroup, it is not passed off to innd for normal handling; instead, it is sent via e-mail to the submission address for that newsgroup. The submission address is determined using this configuration file. The file pathetc/moderators is…
mng – Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) format Description MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) is the animation extension of the popular PNG image-format. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. MNG has advanced animation features which make it very useful as a full replacement for GIF…
mmv – Memory Mapped Values for Performance Co-Pilot Synopsis $PCP_TMP_DIR/mmv/<file> Description The files in $PCP_TMP_DIR/mmv are generated by mmv_stats_init() function from libpcp_mmv library. There could be multiple files in this directory, each file representing a single source of the performance metrics. The metrics are harvested by the mmv PMDA which exports them to the rest…
MMDF – Multi-channel Memorandum Distribution Facility mailbox format Description This document describes the MMDF mailbox format used by some MTAs and MUAs (i.e. scomail(1)) to store mail messages locally. An MMDF mailbox is a text file containing an arbitrary number of e-mail messages. Each message consists of a postmark, followed by an e-mail message formatted…