Section 5: file formats
dirfile-encoding — dirfile database encoding schemes Description The Dirfile Standards indicate that RAW fields defined in the database are accompanied by binary files containing the field data in the specified simple data type. In certain situations, it may be advantageous to convert the binary files in the database into a more convenient form. This is…
directfbrc – DirectFB configuration file Description The directfbrc file is a configuration file read by all DirectFB applications on startup. There are two of these: a system-wide one stored in /etc/directfbrc and a per-user $HOME/.directfbrc which may override system settings. Further customization is available per executable (basename of argv[0]): /etc/directfbrc.$0 and a per-user $HOME/.directfbrc.$0 After…
dir_colors – configuration file for dircolors(1) Description The program ls(1) uses the environment variable LS_COLORS to determine the colors in which the filenames are to be displayed. This environment variable is usually set by a command like eval `dircolors some_path/dir_colors` found in a system default shell initialization file, like /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc. (See also dircolors(1).)…
dictionary – RADIUS dictionary file Description The master RADIUS dictionary file resides in /etc/raddb/dictionary. It references other dictionary files located in /usr/local/share/freeradius/. Each dictionary file contains a list of RADIUS attributes and values, which the server uses to map between descriptive names and on-the-wire data. The names have no meaning outside of the RADIUS server…
dhcpd.leases – DHCP client lease database Description The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server keeps a persistent database of leases that it has assigned. This database is a free-form ASCII file containing a series of lease declarations. Every time a lease is acquired, renewed or released, its new value is recorded at the end of the…
dhcpd.conf – dhcpd configuration file Description The dhcpd.conf file contains configuration information for dhcpd, the Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server. The dhcpd.conf file is a free-form ASCII text file. It is parsed by the recursive-descent parser built into dhcpd. The file may contain extra tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Keywords in the file are…
dhcp6s.conf – DHCPv6 server configuration file Synopsis /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6s.conf Description The file contains configuration information for KAME’s DHCPv6 server, dhcp6s The configuration file consists of a sequence of statements terminated by a semi-colon (`;’). Statements are composed of tokens separated by white space, which can be any combination of blanks, tabs and newlines. In some cases…
dhcp6c.conf – DHCPv6 client configuration file Synopsis /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf Description The file contains configuration information for KAME’s DHCPv6 client, dhcp6c The configuration file consists of a sequence of statements terminated by a semi-colon (`;’). Statements are composed of tokens separated by white space, which can be any combination of blanks, tabs and newlines. In some cases…
dhcp-options – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol options Description The Dynamic Host Configuration protocol allows the client to receive options from the DHCP server describing the network configuration and various services that are available on the network. When configuring dhcpd(8) or dhclient(8) , options must often be declared. The syntax for declaring options, and the names…
dhcp-eval – ISC DHCP conditional evaluation Description The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client and server both provide the ability to perform conditional behavior depending on the contents of packets they receive. The syntax for specifying this conditional behaviour is documented here. Reference: Conditional Behaviour Conditional behaviour may be specified using the if statement and the…
dhclient.leases – DHCP client lease database Description The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired that are still valid. The database is a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease. If more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in the…
dhclient.leases – DHCP client lease database Description The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired that are still valid. The database is a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease. If more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in the…
dhclient.conf – DHCP client configuration file Description The dhclient.conf file contains configuration information for dhclient, the Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client. The dhclient.conf file is a free-form ASCII text file. It is parsed by the recursive-descent parser built into dhclient. The file may contain extra tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Keywords in the file…
depmod.d – Configuration directory for depmod Synopsis /usr/lib/depmod.d/*.conf /etc/depmod.d/*.conf /run/depmod.d/*.conf Description The order in which modules are processed by the depmod command can be altered on a global or per-module basis. This is typically useful in cases where built-in kernel modules are complemented by custom built versions of the same and the user wishes to…
depmod.d – Configuration directory for depmod Synopsis /usr/lib/depmod.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib/depmod.d/*.conf /run/depmod.d/*.conf /etc/depmod.d/*.conf Description The order in which modules are processed by the depmod command can be altered on a global or per-module basis. This is typically useful in cases where built-in kernel modules are complemented by custom built versions of the same and the user wishes…
/etc/deluser.conf – configuration file for deluser(8) and delgroup(8). Description The file /etc/deluser.conf contains defaults for the programs deluser(8) and delgroup(8). Each option takes the form option = value. Double or single quotes are allowed around the value. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) at the beginning of the line. deluser(8) and delgroup(8) also…
/etc/deluser.conf – configuration file for deluser(8) and delgroup(8). Description The file /etc/deluser.conf contains defaults for the programs deluser(8) and delgroup(8). Each option takes the form option = value. Double or single quotes are allowed around the value. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) at the beginning of the line. deluser(8) and delgroup(8) also…
default_type – The SELinux default type configuration file Description The default_type file contains entries that allow SELinux-aware applications such as newrole(1) to select a default type for a role if one is not supplied. selinux_default_type_path(3) will return the active policy path to this file. The default, default type file is: /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/default_type Where {SELINUXTYPE} is the…
default_contexts – The SELinux default contexts configuration file Description The default contexts configuration file default_contexts contains entries that allow SELinux-aware login applications such as PAM(8) SELinux-aware login applications generally use one or more of the following libselinux functions that read these files from the active policy path: get_default_context(3) get_ordered_context_list(3) get_ordered_context_list_with_level(3) get_default_context_with_level(3) get_default_context_with_role(3) get_default_context_with_rolelevel(3) query_user_context(3) manual_user_enter_context(3)…
default.pa – PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script Synopsis ~/.config/pulse/default.pa /etc/pulse/default.pa Description The PulseAudio sound server interprets the file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa on startup, and when that file doesn’t exist /etc/pulse/default.pa. It should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as documented in pulse-cli-syntax(5). The same commands can also be entered during runtime in the pacmd(1) tool, allowing…