Section 5: file formats
mac-vendor – Ethernet vendor file for arp-scan Synopsis mac-vendor.txt Description The mac-vendor.txt contains Ethernet MAC to vendor string mappings for arp-scan. It is used in addition to the IEEE OUI and IAB listings in ieee-oui.txt and ieee-iab.txt. It is for MAC-vendor mappings that are not covered by the IEEE manufacturer listings. Each line in the…
lxc.system.conf – LXC system configuration file Description The system configuration is located at /etc/lxc/lxc.conf or ~/.config/lxc/lxc.conf for unprivileged containers. This configuration file is used to set values such as default lookup paths and storage backend settings for LXC. Configuration Paths lxc.lxcpath The location in which all containers are stored. lxc.default_config The path to the default…
lxc.conf – linux container configuration file Description The linux containers (lxc) are always created before being used. This creation defines a set of system resources to be virtualized / isolated when a process is using the container. By default, the pids, sysv ipc and mount points are virtualized and isolated. The other system resources are…
lxc.container.conf – LXC container configuration file Description The linux containers (lxc) are always created before being used. This creation defines a set of system resources to be virtualized / isolated when a process is using the container. By default, the pids, sysv ipc and mount points are virtualized and isolated. The other system resources are…
lxc.conf – Configuration files for LXC. Description LXC configuration is split in two parts. Container configuration and system configuration. Container Configuration The container configuration is held in the config stored in the container’s directory. A basic configuration is generated at container creation time with the default’s recommended for the chosen template as well as extra…
lxc-usernet – unprivileged user network administration file. Description /etc/lxc/lxc-usernet controls the limits which the program lxc-user-nic places on network interfaces which an unprivileged user may create. Configuration This file consists of multiple entries, one per line, of the form: user type bridge number Where user is the username to whom this entry applies. type is…
lvm.conf — Configuration file for LVM2 Synopsis /etc/lvm/lvm.conf Description lvm.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of lvm(8). This file can in turn lead to other files being loaded – settings read in later override earlier settings. File timestamps are checked between commands and if any have changed, all the files are reloaded. The settings…
lvm.conf — Configuration file for LVM2 Synopsis /etc/lvm/lvm.conf Description lvm.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of lvm(8). This file can in turn lead to other files being loaded – settings read in later override earlier settings. File timestamps are checked between commands and if any have changed, all the files are reloaded. For a…
luaotfload.conf – Luaotfload configuration file Synopsis • ./luaotfload{.conf,rc} • XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luaotfload/luaotfload{.conf,rc} • ~/.luaotfloadrc Description The file luaotfload.conf contains configuration options for Luaotfload, a font loading and font management component for LuaTeX. Example A small Luaotfload configuration file with few customizations could look as follows: [db] formats = afm,ttf compress = false [misc] termwidth = 60 [run]…
ltrace.conf – Configuration file for ltrace(1). Description This manual page describes ltrace.conf, a file that describes prototypes of functions in binaries for ltrace(1) to use. Ltrace needs this information to display function call arguments. Each line of a configuration file describes at most a single item. Lines composed entirely of white space are ignored, as…
ltrace.conf – Configuration file for ltrace(1). Description This manual page describes ltrace.conf, a file that describes prototypes of functions in binaries for ltrace(1) to use. Ltrace needs this information to display function call arguments. Each line of a configuration file describes at most a single item. Lines composed entirely of white space are ignored, as…
lsmd.conf – libStorageMgmt daemon lsmd configuration file. Description The libStorageMgmt plugin daemon (lsmd) will read the lsmd.conf file in the folder defined via –confdir (default is /etc/lsm/). The daemon reads the plugin configuration files from the sub-folder pluginconf.d. The plugin configuration file should be named as <uri_scheme>.conf, for example: * MegaRAID plugin (megaraid://): megaraid.conf The lsmd.conf file controls…
lrzip.conf – Configuration File for lrzip Description This file if used, will be read by the lrzip program, parsed, and options passed to the program. Some options may be overridden on the command line. Others are fixed. The configuration file must be called lrzip.conf. The lrzip program will search for the file automatically in one…
logwatch.conf, ignore.conf, override.conf – logwatch configuration files Description logwatch.conf – ( /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf ) – can contain the local configuration options. The list of valid settings and their default values are in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf. ignore.conf – ( /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf ) is the list of regular expressions. The set of logs decribed by this set is ignored by logwatch….
logrotate – rotates, compresses, and mails system logs Synopsis logrotate [-dv] [-f|–force] [-s|–state file] config_file .. Description logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it…
logrotate – rotates, compresses, and mails system logs Synopsis logrotate [–force] [–debug] [–state file] [–skip-state-lock] [–verbose] [–log file] [–mail command] config_file [config_file2 …] Description logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be…
logind.conf – Login manager configuration file Synopsis /etc/systemd/logind.conf Description This file configures various parameters of the systemd login manager, systemd-logind.service(8). Options All options are configured in the "[Login]" section: NAutoVTs= Takes a positive integer. Configures how many virtual terminals (VTs) to allocate by default that, when switched to and are previously unused, "autovt" services are…
logind.conf, logind.conf.d – Login manager configuration files Synopsis /etc/systemd/logind.conf /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /run/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf Description These files configure various parameters of the systemd login manager, systemd-logind.service(8). See systemd.syntax(7) for a general description of the syntax. Configuration Directories And Precedence The default configuration is set during compilation, so configuration is only needed when it is necessary to deviate…
logind.conf, logind.conf.d – Login manager configuration files Synopsis /etc/systemd/logind.conf /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /run/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf Description These files configure various parameters of the systemd login manager, systemd-logind.service(8). See systemd.syntax(7) for a general description of the syntax. Configuration Directories And Precedence The default configuration is set during compilation, so configuration is only needed when it is necessary to deviate…
login.defs – shadow password suite configuration Description The /etc/login.defs file defines the site-specific configuration for the shadow password suite. This file is required. Absence of this file will not prevent system operation, but will probably result in undesirable operation. This file is a readable text file, each line of the file describing one configuration parameter….