Section 5: file formats
inn-radius.conf – Configuration for nnrpd RADIUS authenticator Description This describes the format and attributes of the configuration file for the nnrpd RADIUS authenticator. See radius(8) for more information about the authenticator program. The default location for this file is inn-radius.conf in pathetc. Blank lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored, as is anything after…
inittab – init daemon configuration Synopsis /etc/inittab Description The /etc/inittab file was the configuration file used by the original System V init(8) daemon. The Upstart init(8) daemon does not use this file, and instead reads its configuration from files in /etc/init. See init(5) for more details. See Also init(8) init(5)
os-release, initrd-release – Operating system identification Synopsis /etc/os-release /usr/lib/os-release /etc/initrd-release Description The /etc/os-release and /usr/lib/os-release files contain operating system identification data. The basic file format of os-release 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, no shell features are…
initramfs.conf – configuration file for mkinitramfs Description The behaviour of mkinitramfs can be modified by its configuration file. Each line in the file can be a configuration variable, a blank line, or a comment. The value of an variable is assigned by an statement of the form: name=[value] Configuration options can be broken out into…
initramfs.conf – configuration file for mkinitramfs Description The behaviour of mkinitramfs can be modified by its configuration file. Each line in the file can be a configuration variable, a blank line, or a comment. The value of an variable is assigned by an statement of the form: name=[value] Configuration options can be broken out into…
init – Upstart init daemon job configuration Synopsis /etc/init/ Default location of system job configuration files. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/upstart/, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/upstart/ Default locations of user session job configuration files. $HOME/.init/ Deprecated location of user job configuration files (still honoured by User Session Mode). Description On startup, the Upstart init(8) daemon reads its job configuration from files in the…
Debian Name init-d-script – interpreter for short and simple init.d scripts Description Generic init.d script framework to reduce the redundant code in /etc/init.d/ The goal is to create an init.d script that is Debian and LSB compliant. When the Debian policy conflicts with the LSB, the Debian policy takes precedence. This is a simple example…
info – readable online documentation Description The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents. It can be read by emacs(1) and info(1) among other programs. Info files are usually created from texinfo(5) sources by makeinfo(1), but can be created from scratch if so desired. For a full description of the Texinfo language…
incrontab – tables for driving inotify cron (incron) Description An incrontab file contains instructions to the incrond(8) daemon of the general form: "run this command on these file events". There are two categories of tables: system tables (with root privileges) and user tables (with user privileges). System tables are (by default) located in /etc/incron.d and…
/etc/incron.conf – main config file for inotify cron (incron) Description The file /etc/incron.conf contains default settings for the program incrond. Each line holds a single value pair in the form option = value. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first line. The valid configuration options are: system_table_dir This directory is examined…
/etc/incron.conf – main config file for inotify cron (incron) Description The file /etc/incron.conf contains default settings for the program incrond. Each line holds a single value pair in the form option = value. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first line. The valid configuration options are: system_table_dir This directory is examined…
incoming.conf – Configuration of incoming news feeds Description The file pathetc/incoming.conf consists of three types of entries: key/value, peer and group. Comments are from the hash character "#" to the end of the line. Blank lines are ignored. All key/value entries within each type must not be duplicated. Key/value entries are a keyword immediately followed…
incoming.conf – Configuration of incoming news feeds Description The file pathetc/incoming.conf consists of three types of entries: key/value, peer and group. Comments are from the hash character "#" to the end of the line. Blank lines are ignored. All key/value entries within each type must not be duplicated. Key/value entries are a keyword immediately followed…
inadyn.conf – configuration for the inadyn client for open DNS servers. Description inadyn can read the very same options which can be present in the command line from a configuration file. This feature allows the user to write the options only once, and avoids frequent retyping. The format of the file follows the *NIX tradition:…
in.hosts – newsx incoming host state Description The in.hosts directory contains the necessary state information for the incoming news streams fetched by newsx(8). For each incoming news source, there must be a /var/spool/news/inhosts/spoolname file that describes what the latest article is that has been fetched from that particular host. If you want to get all…
imapfilter_config – imapfilter configuration file Synopsis $HOME/.imapfilter/config.lua Description imapfilter(1) uses the Lua programming language as a configuration and extension language, therefore the configuration file is a Lua script. Although knowledge of Lua is not required to use imapfilter(1), it is nonetheless recommended, especially if one wants to extend it. Conventions A brief description of the…
* Name imapd.conf – IMAP configuration file Description /etc/imapd.conf is the configuration file for the Cyrus IMAP server. It defines local parameters for IMAP. Each line of the /etc/imapd.conf file has the form option: value where option is the name of the configuration option being set and value is the value that the configuration option…
ignored_words.conf – configuration file for libreport. Description This configuration file specifies which words are NOT highlighted in User Interface during the process of reporting a problem for the purpose of warning a user and getting his attention before he publish security sensitive data. The configuration format is one line per ignored word. Users can provide…
ignored_words.conf – configuration file for libreport. Description This configuration file specifies which words are NOT highlighted in User Interface during the process of reporting a problem for the purpose of warning a user and getting his attention before he publish security sensitive data. The configuration format is one line per ignored word. Users can provide…
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….