Section 5: file formats
etter.conf – Ettercap configuration file Description etter.conf is the configuration file that determines ettercap behaviour. It is always loaded at startup and it configures some attributes used at runtime. The file contains entries of the form: [section] entry = value … Each entry defines a variable that can be customized. Every value MUST be an…
NAME ethers – Ethernet address to IP number database DESCRIPTION /etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding IP numbers, one line for each IP number: Ethernet-address IP-number The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB characters. A # at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends…
esmtprc – esmtp configuration file. Description A esmtp configuration file consists of several options. The options format is: keyword=value The equal sign is optional and can be replaced by whitespace. The value may be enclosed in simple or double quotes, in which case special characters can be escaped as in normal C strings. Comments are…
epylog.conf – epylog configuration Synopsis epylog config file is a simple plaintext file in win.ini style format. Location Epylog will look in /etc/epylog/epylog.conf by default, but you can override that by passing -c switch on the command line. [main] cfgdir This is where epylog should look for other configuration information, most notably, modules.d directory. See…
epylog.conf – epylog configuration Synopsis epylog config file is a simple plaintext file in win.ini style format. Location Epylog will look in /etc/epylog/epylog.conf by default, but you can override that by passing -c switch on the command line. [main] cfgdir This is where epylog should look for other configuration information, most notably, modules.d directory. See…
epylog-modules – epylog module cofiguration. Synopsis epylog uses pluggable modules to perform analysis and report on syslog strings. This manpage explains the format of the module config files. modules.d Epylog config files are placed in the modules.d directory of the cfgdir specified in epylog.conf. Any file ending in .conf in that directory is considered a…
pam_env.conf, environment – the environment variables config files Description The /etc/security/pam_env.conf file specifies the environment variables to be set, unset or modified by pam_env(8). When someone logs in, this file is read and the environment variables are set according. Each line starts with the variable name, there are then two possible options for each variable…
environment.d – Definition of user service environment Synopsis ~/.config/environment.d/*.conf /etc/environment.d/*.conf /run/environment.d/*.conf /usr/lib/environment.d/*.conf /etc/environment Description Configuration files in the environment.d/ directories contain lists of environment variable assignments for services started by the systemd user instance. systemd-environment-d-generator(8) parses them and updates the environment exported by the systemd user instance. See below for an discussion of which processes…
environ – user environment Synopsis extern char **environ; Description The variable environ points to an array of pointers to strings called the "environment". The last pointer in this array has the value NULL. (This variable must be declared in the user program, but is declared in the header file <unistd.h> in case the header files…
emergencyanalysis_event.conf – configuration file for libreport. Description This configuration file defines events for the emergency analysis. These events are supposed to be used when the standard reporting process fails. By default the file contains definition for report_EmergencyAnalysis event applicable for all problem types. report_EmergencyAnalysis event configuration file The configuration for report_EmergencyAnalysis event is read from…
emergencyanalysis_event.conf – configuration file for libreport. Description This configuration file defines events for the emergency analysis. These events are supposed to be used when the standard reporting process fails. By default the file contains definition for report_EmergencyAnalysis event applicable for all problem types. report_EmergencyAnalysis event configuration file The configuration for report_EmergencyAnalysis event is read from…
elinkskeys – keybindings for ELinks Synopsis Information on how to configure keybinding and overview of the default keybindings. Description Key binding for elinks should be placed in the file ~/.elinks/elinks.conf. Note that any information regarding their format/structure may not be up-to-date. If you will discover that, please feed us with a patch. Key binding statements…
elinks.conf – ELinks configuration file Synopsis set <option> = <value> unset <option> bind "<keymap>" "<key>" = "<action>" include "<file>" Description The elinks.conf file contains configuration information for ELinks. It can be used to configure the behaviour of ELinks in a wide variety of ways: protocol behaviour, keybindings, colors used for rendering and for the user…
elinks.conf – ELinks configuration file Synopsis set <option> = <value> set_domain <domain> <option> = <value> unset <option> bind "<keymap>" "<key>" = "<action>" include "<file>" Description The elinks.conf file contains configuration information for ELinks. It can be used to configure the behaviour of ELinks in a wide variety of ways: protocol behaviour, keybindings, colors used for…
elf – format of Executable and Linking Format (ELF) files Synopsis #include <elf.h> Description The header file <elf.h> defines the format of ELF executable binary files. Amongst these files are normal executable files, relocatable object files, core files, and shared objects. An executable file using the ELF file format consists of an ELF header, followed…
elektra – A framework to store configuration atoms hierarchically Note This section is provided for the sake of the openness of Elektra. You should not access the Elektra’s key files directly. You should use the API or the kdb(1) command for that. Elektra Key Storage Strategy.PP Elektra implements a very simple way to store the…
editrc – configuration file for editline library Synopsis Description The file defines various settings to be used by the editline(3) library. The format of each line is: [prog:]command [arg …] command is one of the editline(3) builtin commands. Refer to Sx BUILTIN COMMANDS for more information. prog is the program name string that a program…
edg-mkgridmap.conf – edg-mkgridmap configuration file Description edg-mkgridmap.conf file contains configuration informations for edg-mkgridmap. The default location is /etc/edg-mkgridmap.conf. The edg-mkgridmap.conf file is a free-form ASCII text file. It is parsed by the descent parser built into edg-mkgridmap. The file may contain extra tabs and white spaces for formatting purposes. Keywords in the file are case-insensitive….
e2fsck.conf – Configuration file for e2fsck Description e2fsck.conf is the configuration file for e2fsck(8). It controls the default behavior of e2fsck(8) while it is checking ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystems. The e2fsck.conf file uses an INI-style format. Stanzas, or top-level sections, are delimited by square braces: [ ]. Within each section, each line defines a…
e2fsck.conf – Configuration file for e2fsck Description e2fsck.conf is the configuration file for e2fsck(8). It controls the default behavior of e2fsck(8) while it is checking ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. The e2fsck.conf file uses an INI-style format. Stanzas, or top-level sections, are delimited by square braces: [ ]. Within each section, each line defines…