Section 5: file formats
dstyle – format of .dstyle files (display styles) Description Display styles indicate how to render information on a screen. Each style describes one way of rendering information, for example as a solid area in red or as a dotted outline in purple. Different styles correspond to mask layers, highlights, labels, menus, window borders, and so…
dselect.cfg – dselect configuration file Description This file contains default options for dselect. Each line contains a single option which is exactly the same as a normal command line option for dselect except for the leading hyphens which are not used here. Quotes surrounding option values are stripped. Comments are allowed by starting a line…
dsc – Debian source packages’ control file format Synopsis filename.dsc Description Each Debian source package is composed of a .dsc control file, which contains a number of fields, in deb822(5) format. Each field begins with a tag, such as Source or Binary (case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field (case…
dracut.conf – configuration file(s) for dracut Synopsis /etc/dracut.conf /etc/dracut.conf.d/.conf /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/.conf Description dracut.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of dracut. Command line parameter will overwrite any values set here. *.conf files are read from /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d and /etc/dracut.conf.d. Files with the same name in /etc/dracut.conf.d will replace files in /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d. The files are then read in…
dracut.conf – configuration file(s) for dracut Synopsis /etc/dracut.conf /etc/dracut.conf.d/.conf /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/.conf Description dracut.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of dracut. Command line parameter will overwrite any values set here. *.conf files are read from /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d and /etc/dracut.conf.d. Files with the same name in /etc/dracut.conf.d will replace files in /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d. The files are then read in…
dpkg.cfg – dpkg configuration file Description This file contains default options for dpkg. Each line contains a single option which is exactly the same as a normal command line option for dpkg except for the leading hyphens which are not used here. Quotes surrounding option values are stripped. Comments are allowed by starting a line…
dpkg.cfg – dpkg configuration file Description This file contains default options for dpkg. Each line contains a single option which is exactly the same as a normal command line option for dpkg except for the leading hyphens which are not used here. Quotes surrounding option values are stripped. Comments are allowed by starting a line…
dovecot.conf – The configuration file for dovecot imap and pop3 server Full Path /etc/dovecot.conf Description The dovecot.conf file is a configuration file for the dovecot(1) imap and pop3 server. The dovecot.conf configuration file contains description to all available options. Some of these options are described also in offline wiki documentation placed in /usr/share/doc/dovecot*/wiki/. For backup…
HOME/.docker/config.json – Default Docker configuration file Introduction By default, the Docker command line stores its configuration files in a directory called .docker within your $HOME directory. Docker manages most of the files in the configuration directory and you should not modify them. However, you can modify the config.json file to control certain aspects of how…
dnssec-trust-anchors.d, systemd.positive, systemd.negative – DNSSEC trust anchor configuration files Synopsis /etc/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.positive /run/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.positive /usr/lib/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.positive /etc/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.negative /run/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.negative /usr/lib/dnssec-trust-anchors.d/*.negative Description The DNSSEC trust anchor configuration files define positive and negative trust anchors systemd-resolved.service(8) bases DNSSEC integrity proofs on. Positive Trust Anchors Positive trust anchor configuration files contain DNSKEY and DS resource record definitions to use as base for…
dnf.conf – DNF Configuration Reference Description DNF by default uses the global configuration file at /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and all *.repo files found under /etc/yum.repos.d. The latter is typically used for repository configuration. There are two types of sections in the configuration files: main and repository. Main defines all global configuration options. There should be only one…
dlys – format of .dlys files read by the SCALD simulator and timing verifier Description The SCALD simulator and timing verifier can accept information about the actual delays of wires in a circuit. This delay information is described in a .dlys file, which consists of a sequence of records, one for each electrical net. Each…
dlm.conf – dlm_controld configuration file Synopsis /etc/dlm/dlm.conf Description The configuration options in dlm.conf mirror the dlm_controld command line options. The config file additionally allows advanced fencing and lockspace configuration that are not supported on the command line. Command line equivalents If an option is specified on the command line and in the config file, the…
distributions – Recommended values for the Distribution: header Description The file pathetc/distributions contains a list of relevant distributions and their descriptions. It provides local information for posters who wish to add a Distribution: header to their articles so as to restrict their propagation, although it does not guarantee that such articles will not leak elsewhere…
distrib.pats – Default values for the Distribution: header Description The file pathetc/distrib.pats is used by nnrpd to determine the default value of the Distribution: header. Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored. All other lines consist of three fields separated by a colon: <weight>:<pattern>:<value> The first field is the weight…
distrib.pats – Default values for the Distribution: header Description The file pathetc/distrib.pats is used by nnrpd to determine the default value of the Distribution: header. Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored. All other lines consist of three fields separated by a colon: <weight>:<pattern>:<value> The first field is the weight…
displays – Display Configuration File Description The interactive graphics programs Caesar, Magic, and Gremlin use two separate terminals: a text terminal from which commands are issued, and a color graphics terminal on which graphical output is displayed. These programs use a displays file to associate their text terminal with its corresponding display device. The displays…
disklist – List of partitions to back up for Amanda Description The disklist file determines which disks will be backed up by Amanda. The file contains includefile directive or disklist entry (DLE). includefile string Default: no default. The name of a disklist file to include within the current file. Useful for sharing disklist among several…
dirfile — a filesystem based database format for time-ordered binary data Description The dirfile database format is designed to provide a fast, simple format for storing and reading binary time-ordered data. Dirfiles can be read using the GetData library. The dirfile database is centred around one or more time-ordered data streams (a time stream). Each…
dirfile-format — the dirfile database format specification file Description The dirfile format file fully specifies the raw and derived time streams and auxiliary information for a dirfile(5) database. The format file is a case sensitive text file called format located in the dirfile directory. The explicit text encoding of the file is not specified by…