Section 5: file formats
iftab – static information about the network interfaces Description The file /etc/iftab contains descriptive information about the various network interfaces. iftab is only used by the program ifrename(8) to assign a consistent network interface name to each network interface. /etc/iftab defines a set of mappings. Each mapping contains an interface name and a set of…
ifplugd.conf – ifplugd configuration file Synopsis /etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf Description ifplugd.conf is the configuration file for ifplugd. It is a shell script that is sourced by the init script starting the daemon. It shall be used to set environment variables which are interpreted by the init script: Options INTERFACES Specifies the ethernet interfaces to monitor. It has…
idmapd.conf – configuration file for libnfsidmap Synopsis Configuration file for libnfsidmap. Used by idmapd and svcgssd to map NFSv4 name to and from ids. Description The idmapd.conf configuration file consists of several sections, initiated by strings of the form [General] and [Mapping]. Each section may contain lines of the form variable = value The recognized…
idmapd.conf – configuration file for libnfsidmap Synopsis Configuration file for libnfsidmap. Used by idmapd and svcgssd to map NFSv4 name to and from ids. Description The idmapd.conf configuration file consists of several sections, initiated by strings of the form [General] and [Mapping]. Each section may contain lines of the form variable = value The recognized…
IBUS – dconf database file for IBus Synopsis /etc/dconf/db/ibus Description IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily. /etc/dconf/db/ibus is a database file dconf and saves the…
ibus.conf – X input preload/configuration file for ibus Synopsis /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus.conf Description IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily. ibus.conf is a configuration file containing X input…
hwclock – settings that affect the behaviour of the hwclock init script Description The /etc/default/hwclock file contains settings in POSIX format: VAR=VAL Only one assignment is allowed per line. Comments (starting with ‘#’) are also allowed. Settings The following settings can be set. HCTOSYS_DEVICE The hardware clock device you want to use. Defaults to rtc0….
html2textrc – formatting properties file for html2text(1) Synopsis Key [ = | : ] Value Description The html2textrc(5) file defines a set of formatting properties used by the html2text(1) utility, that overrides the program’s built-in formatting defaults. Each line of the html2textrc(5) file is either a formatting property or a comment. Lines with a leading…
html2psrc – configuration file format for html2ps(1) Description Configuration files are used for layout control, resource information etc. Normally, there should always exist a global configuration file. In this file one typically specify things like: what image conversion packages are available on the system, the default paper size, the default text fonts and sizes, etc….
hosts_options – host access control language extensions Description This document describes extensions to the language described in the hosts_access(5) document. The extensible language uses the following format: daemon_list : client_list : option : option … The first two fields are described in the hosts_access(5) manual page. The remainder of the rules is a list…
hosts_access – format of host access control files Description This manual page describes a simple access control language that is based on client (host name/address, user name), and server (process name, host name/address) patterns. Examples are given at the end. The impatient reader is encouraged to skip to the EXAMPLES section for a quick introduction….
hosts – static table lookup for hostnames Synopsis /etc/hosts Description This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts file. This file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with hostnames, one line per IP address. For each host a single line should be present with the following information: IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases…] The…
hosts.equiv – list of hosts and users that are granted "trusted" r command access to your system Description The file /etc/hosts.equiv allows or denies hosts and users to use the r-commands (e.g., rlogin, rsh, or rcp) without supplying a password. The file uses the following format: +|[-]hostname|+@netgroup|-@netgroup [+|[-]username|+@netgroup|-@netgroup] The hostname is the name of a…
hosts_access – format of host access control files Description This manual page describes a simple access control language that is based on client (host name/address, user name), and server (process name, host name/address) patterns. Examples are given at the end. The impatient reader is encouraged to skip to the EXAMPLES section for a quick introduction….
hosts.conf – Access control for Network UPS Tools CGI programs Description The CGI programs (upsset.cgi(8), upsstats.cgi(8), upsimage.cgi(8)) use this file to determine if they are allowed to talk to a host. This keeps random visitors from using your web server to annoy others by creating outgoing connections. Directives MONITOR ups description The ups element is…
hosts_access – format of host access control files Description This manual page describes a simple access control language that is based on client (host name/address, user name), and server (process name, host name/address) patterns. Examples are given at the end. The impatient reader is encouraged to skip to the EXAMPLES section for a quick introduction….
hostname – Local hostname configuration file Synopsis /etc/hostname Description The /etc/hostname file configures the name of the local system. Unless overridden as described in the next section, systemd(1) will set this hostname during boot using the sethostname(2) system call. The file should contain a single newline-terminated hostname string. Comments (lines starting with a "#") are…
hostgroup – host group entry file format Description A host group entry is used to merge host names to groups. Each host group entry file defines one group. Inside a group definition file you can also reference groups. These groups are called subgroups. A subgroup is referenced by the sign "@" as first character of…
host_conf – xxQS_NAMExx execution host configuration file format Description Host_conf reflects the format of the template file for the execution host configuration. Via the -ae and -me options of the command, you can add execution hosts and modify the configuration of any execution host in the cluster. Default execution host entries are added automatically as…
host_aliases – xxQS_NAMExx host aliases file format Description All xxQS_NAMExx components use a hostname resolving service provided by the communication library to identify hosts via a unique hostname. The communication library itself references standard UNIX directory services such as DNS, NIS and /etc/hosts to resolve hostnames (through the Name Service Switch on systems which support…