Section 5: file formats
update-motd – dynamic MOTD generation Synopsis /etc/update-motd.d/* Description UNIX/Linux system adminstrators often communicate important information to console and remote users by maintaining text in the file /etc/motd, which is displayed by the pam_motd(8) module on interactive shell logins. Traditionally, this file is static text, typically installed by the distribution and only updated on release upgrades,…
update-initramfs.conf – configuration file for update-initramfs Description The configuration file allows one to disable the update action from update-initramfs. General Variables update_initramfs Default is yes for running the latest initramfs-tools hooks in the newest Linux image. Setting it to all updates any known initramfs. It is possible to set it to no for remote servers…
update-initramfs.conf – configuration file for update-initramfs Description The configuration file allows one to disable the update action from update-initramfs. General Variables update_initramfs Default is yes for running the latest initramfs-tools hooks in the newest Linux image. Setting it to all updates any known initramfs. It is possible to set it to no for remote servers…
up2date – Configuration file for Red Hat Satellite client programs. Description Red Hat Satellite client programs, such as rhn_check(8), use a common configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Options enableProxy Use a HTTP Proxy. Can be either 0 (False) or 1 (True). serverURL Remote server URL debug Whether or not debugging is enabled. Can be either 0…
unlang – FreeRADIUS Processing un-language Description FreeRADIUS supports a simple processing language in its configuration files. We call it an "un-language" because the intention is NOT to create yet another programming language. If you need something more complicated than what is described here, we suggest using the Perl or Python modules rlm_perl, or rlm_python. The…
unicharset – character properties file used by tesseract(1) Description Tesseract’s unicharset file contains information on each symbol (unichar) the Tesseract OCR engine is trained to recognize. A unicharset file (i.e. eng.unicharset) is distributed as part of a Tesseract language pack (i.e. eng.traineddata). For information on extracting the unicharset file, see combine_tessdata(1). The first line of…
unicharambigs – Tesseract unicharset ambiguities Description The unicharambigs file (a component of traineddata, see combine_tessdata(1) ) is used by Tesseract to represent possible ambiguities between characters, or groups of characters. The file contains a number of lines, laid out as follow: [num] <TAB> [char(s)] <TAB> [num] <TAB> [char(s)] <TAB> [num] Field one the number of…
unbound.conf – Unbound configuration file. Synopsis unbound.conf Description unbound.conf is used to configure unbound(8). The file format has attributes and values. Some attributes have attributes inside them. The notation is: attribute: value. Comments start with # and last to the end of line. Empty lines are ignored as is whitespace at the beginning of a…
sane-umax_pp – SANE backend for Umax Astra parallel port flatbed scanners Description The sane-umax_pp library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to Umax parallel port flatbed scanners. The following scanners work with this backend: Model: ——————– Astra 610P Astra 1220P HP3200C Astra 1600P Astra 2000P Genius ColorPage-Life Pro This backend…
udisks2.conf – The udisks2 configuration file Description The udisks project provides additional functionality via pluggable modules. These plugins can be inserted into the daemon either by D-Bus call org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Manager.EnableModules() or by running the udisks daemon with –force-load-modules command line option. It is also possible to configure the modules loading behavior via the configuration file placed…
udev.conf – Configuration for device event managing daemon Synopsis /etc/udev/udev.conf Description systemd-udevd(8) expects its main configuration file at /etc/udev/udev.conf. It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values. All empty lines or lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored. The following variables can be set: udev_log The logging priority. Valid…
udev.conf – Configuration for device event managing daemon Synopsis /etc/udev/udev.conf Description systemd-udevd(8) expects its main configuration file at /etc/udev/udev.conf. It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values. All empty lines or lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored. The following variables can be set: udev_log= The log level. Valid…
ucf.conf – site-wide configuration file for ucf Synopsis /etc/ucf.conf Description The file /etc/ucf.conf is actually a Bourne Shell snippet included during the package build process, and hence you may put any shell directive in that file (just make very sure you know what you are doing). All the variables have reasonable default values, and some…
ucf.conf – site-wide configuration file for ucf Synopsis /etc/ucf.conf Description The file /etc/ucf.conf is actually a Bourne Shell snippet included during the package build process, and hence you may put any shell directive in that file (just make very sure you know what you are doing). All the variables have reasonable default values, and some…
tzfile – timezone information Description ds – – The timezone information files used by tzset(3) are typically found under a directory with a name like /usr/share/zoneinfo. These files use the format described in Internet RFC 8536. Each file is a sequence of 8-bit bytes. In a file, a binary integer is represented by a sequence…
types.db – Data-set specifications for the system statistics collection daemon collectd Synopsis bitrate value:GAUGE:0:4294967295 counter value:COUNTER:U:U if_octets rx:COUNTER:0:4294967295, tx:COUNTER:0:4294967295 Description The types.db file contains one line for each data-set specification. Each line consists of two fields delimited by spaces and/or horizontal tabs. The first field defines the name of the data-set, while the second field…
twfiles – overview of files used by Tripwire and file backup process Description .SS Configuration File default: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg The configuration file stores system-specific information, such as the location of Tripwire data files. The configuration settings are generated during the installation process, but can be changed by the system administrator at any time. See the twconfig(4)…
tuned.conf – Tuned profile definition Description This man page documents format of Tuned 2.0 profile definition files. Profile is stored in /etc/tuned/<profile_name>/tuned.conf or in /usr/lib/tuned/<profile_name>/tuned.conf file where the /etc/tuned/ directory has higher priority. The tuned.conf configures the profile and it is in ini-file format. Main Section The main section is called "[main]" and can contain…
tuned-main.conf – Tuned global configuration file Synopsis /etc/tuned/tuned-main.conf Description This man page documents format of the Tuned global configuration file. The tuned-main.conf file uses the ini-file format. daemon=BOOL This defines whether Tuned will use daemon or not. It is boolean value. It can be True or 1 if the daemon is enabled and False or…
ttytype – terminal device to default terminal type mapping Description The /etc/ttytype file associates termcap(5)/terminfo(5) terminal type names with tty lines. Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the /dev/) prefix. This association is used by the program tset(1) to set the environment…