Section 5: file formats
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….
login.access – login access control table Description The login.access file specifies on which ttys or from which hosts certain users are allowed to login. At login, the /etc/login.access file is checked for the first entry that matches a specific user/host or user/tty combination. That entry can either allow or deny login access to that user….
localtime – Local timezone configuration file Synopsis /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/… Description The /etc/localtime file configures the system-wide timezone of the local system that is used by applications for presentation to the user. It should be an absolute or relative symbolic link pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by a timezone identifier such as "Europe/Berlin" or "Etc/UTC". The…
locale – describes a locale definition file Description The locale definition file contains all the information that the localedef(1) command needs to convert it into the binary locale database. The definition files consist of sections which each describe a locale category in detail. See locale(7) for additional details for these categories. Syntax The locale definition…
locale.gen – Configuration file for locale-gen Description The file /etc/locale.gen lists the locales that are to be generated by the locale-gen command. Each line is of the form: <locale> <charset> where <locale> is one of the locales given in /usr/share/i18n/locales and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps The locale-gen command will…
locale.conf – Configuration file for locale settings Synopsis /etc/locale.conf Description The /etc/locale.conf file configures system-wide locale settings. It is read at early boot by systemd(1). The basic file format of locale.conf is a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments,…
local.users – The SELinux local users configuration file Description The file contains local user definitions in the form of policy language user statements and is only found on older SELinux systems as it has been deprecated and replaced by the semange(8) services. This file is only read by selinux_mkload_policy(3) when SETLOCALDEFS in the SELinux config…
local.users – The SELinux local users configuration file Description The file contains local user definitions in the form of policy language user statements and is only found on older SELinux systems as it has been deprecated and replaced by the semange(8) services. This file is only read by selinux_mkload_policy(3) when SETLOCALDEFS in the SELinux config…
loader.conf – Configuration file for systemd-boot Synopsis ESP/loader/loader.conf, ESP/loader/entries/*.conf Description systemd-boot(7) will read ESP/loader/loader.conf and any files with the ".conf" extension under ESP/loader/entries/ on the EFI system partition (ESP). Each configuration file must consist of an option name, followed by whitespace, and the option value. "#" may be used to start a comment line. Empty…
load_parameters – xxQS_NAMExx default load parameters Description The load parameters reported by the execution daemon by default currently are: arch An architecture string compiled into the sge_execd describing the operating system architecture for which the execd is targeted. Possible values include: aix51 for IBM AIX 5.1, 5.3 darwin-x86 for Apple Mac OS/X x86 darwin-ppc for…
lmhosts – The Samba NetBIOS hosts file Synopsis lmhosts is the samba(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. Description This file is part of the samba(7) suite. lmhosts is the Samba NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is very similar to the /etc/hosts file format, except that the hostname component must correspond…
lj4_font – groff fonts for use with devlj4 Description Nominally, all Hewlett-Packard LaserJet~4-series and newer printers have the same internal fonts: 45 scalable fonts and one bitmapped Lineprinter font. The scalable fonts are available in sizes between 0.25 points and 999.75 points, in 0.25-point increments; the Lineprinter font is available only in 8.5-point size. The…
lircd.conf – lirc main configuration file Description The file has two purposes: to provide timing information to the driver so it can decode the data to button presses, and to provide a mapping from button presses to key symbols used by lircd(8). The basic structure is a list of remote blocks. Whitespace and line breaks…
linkcheckerrc – configuration file for LinkChecker Description linkcheckerrc is the configuration file for LinkChecker. The file is written in an INI-style format. The default file location is ~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc on Unix, %HOMEPATH%\.linkchecker\linkcheckerrc on Windows systems. Settings [checking] cookiefile=filename Read a file with initial cookie data. The cookie data format is explained in linkchecker(1). Command line option:…
limits.conf – configuration file for the pam_limits module Description The pam_limits.so module applies ulimit limits, nice priority and number of simultaneous login sessions limit to user login sessions. This description of the configuration file syntax applies to the /etc/security/limits.conf file and *.conf files in the /etc/security/limits.d directory. The syntax of the lines is as follows:…
limits.conf – configuration file for the pam_limits module Description The pam_limits.so module applies ulimit limits, nice priority and number of simultaneous login sessions limit to user login sessions. This description of the configuration file syntax applies to the /etc/security/limits.conf file and *.conf files in the /etc/security/limits.d directory. The syntax of the lines is as follows:…
libvga.config, svgalibrc – the svgalib configuration file Description The svgalib configuration is usually located in /etc/vga/libvga.config though one can reconfigure this location when recompiling svgalib. In the configuration file, everything between a # and the end of the line is ignored. Empty lines are also ignored. Since the driver you will use may not know…
libuser.conf – configuration for libuser and libuser utilities File Format libuser.conf is a text file. Leading and trailing white space on each line is ignored. Lines starting with # are ignored. The file defines variables grouped into sections. Each section starts with a section header: [section name] A single section header can appear more than…
libuser.conf – configuration for libuser and libuser utilities File Format libuser.conf is a text file. Leading and trailing white space on each line is ignored. Lines starting with # are ignored. The file defines variables grouped into sections. Each section starts with a section header: [section name] A single section header can appear more than…
services.xml – libtranslate generic service definitions Description The services.xml file contains translation service definitions for the libtranslate generic module. The generic module provides an abstract framework for supporting web-based translation services. When the generic module is initialized, it reads service definitions from the services.xml files located in /usr/share/libtranslate and ~/.libtranslate, creates the services defined in…