On Monday 05 September 2005 11:30 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
The rest are not as important in that they relate to specific programs (Referring to config files). FWIW: I think it is not so important that new users learn the config files right away because YaST does most of it, but as one gets more experienced, one should learn where most of them are and what they do, because they tend to be in the same (or similar) places in all Linux and Unix systems. Such as: /etc/resolv.conf Name servers /etc/samba Directory where smb.config and other related files are /etc/hosts Names of hosts local to the system you are on. /etc/ntp.conf Configure time servers if you run the ntpd daemon /etc/aliases Mail aliases /etc/sendmail.cf Send mail configiration of you run sendmail /etc/postfix Directory containing postfix configuration files. /etc/httpd Directory containing apache configuration files.
/etc/sysconfig Directory containing additional system configuration files.
This is used by YaST extensively.
The one thing that all of the config files have in common is that they are
plain text files, and if you are unable to set your configuration properly
through YaST (or another graphical system management tool), the underlying
config files are almost always going to be there for you to set.
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Jerry Feldman