General :: Where Did Configuration Files Go?
Aug 18, 2010
I have been using Fedora Core 6 off and on for awhile.I could not update it so I downloaded and installed Fedora core 13. A lot of things seem to be missing compared to the earlier package: I cannot get a response to "Detect Monitor" and I do not have any choices with better screen resolution than 800 x 600. The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist. I have used this in the past to control the resolution although I have generally used the gui stuff to accomplish all the tasks up to this time.
I also do not find a "services" menu item where I can get ssh and web server working.I suspect I need to download some more software to get all this stuff working again but I do not know which packages I need. I am not an expert on Linux and am trying to learn it. On the older version of fedora I had these things working well.
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May 8, 2010
I want to store some of my configuration files (~/.emacs.d/, .Xdefaults, etc. linux $HOME stuff) in version control so I can easily sync them with my notebook/workplace and see my past changes and revert to them should the need arise.
So far it seems to me that there are quite some people using git for this and I think that I too want to use a distributed vcs for this (if only to get more used to them) but I can't say that I am very experienced with all things dvcs. I did use darcs and git briefly and so far I can say that I really like the way git handles branches, and I think the possibility to have different branches within the same directory is especially useful for my use case. Darcs on the other hand has cherry picking of patches, which too is quite the convenient feature when managing configuration files (at least I assume it is).
So, what would you recommend to use? And what would be your reasoning for your recommendation? What other vcs with nice feature that I haven't mentioned exist and would make a good vcs to store configuration files and why?
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Jan 7, 2011
In linux, why are folders for configuration files always named *.d?
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May 18, 2011
Not exactly new to Linux but - over the years I have been appalled to find hundreds of configuration files for every known program/service in Linux with millions of lines of useless comments that you have to endlessly scroll up-and-down in a text-editor to find anything of value and then make sense of what you need to configure/change, etc.
Is there an automated way to clean up any given configuration file and get rid of the "filler" stuff ?Seems like a shell script should be able to accomplish the task by getting rid of all lines that start with # ..
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Jul 27, 2010
I am trying to set up the LDAP database but it will not really work. Maybe some of you knows the answer.At this moment I get stuck at point 5: Load the LDIF data file into the database.
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Feb 5, 2011
I've been struggling for a couple of days to understand how configuration files work in Linux but haven't really found any clear information regarding that.My main question, as there is not a standard configuration file format in Linux, is how the format of a configuration file is understood by a Linux program? How the program reads its configuration file and how it understands its syntax (file format)? Also, a further question is how the program knows where its configuration file is being located?
For example inittab has its own "Identifier:RunLevel:Action:Command" format. How this is recognised by the "init" process?
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Oct 4, 2010
I have a number of versions of gnome installed on a number of different hosts. All users have network mounted home directories. In some cases gnome works poorly when reading configuration from the .gnome2 directory. I would like to read config files from version specific directories. Is there any way to specify this when starting gnome? Environment variables perhaps? I know how to move the .gconf directories but this is not sufficient. I need to read the .gnome2 from a different path.
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Apr 19, 2011
how do i view configuration files for passwords and groups?
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Jun 3, 2011
I had installed ssh but something went wrong and I uninstalled it. I removed the SSH configuration files by hand (I deleted all /etc/ssh folder).After ssh installation (I mean apt-get install ssh) I noticed that I have no SSH configuration files.I tried apt-get install openssh-server but i still have no SSH configuration files.
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Mar 25, 2010
Is there any Linux tool to create new or modify exiting key/value pairs in text configuration files? For example, to change a setting in xorg.conf, or change something in etc/networking/interfaces? I know it could be done by sed or by perl scripts, but it could be easier to have a program for this purpose. There are many difficulties for this job that the program should consider, and I am facing nearly all of them:
- Some configuration files may have sections. Like in Windows-type INI files (for example: "[something]"), or like Section in xorg.conf. More sections with the same name can occur, like in xorg.conf.
- If the key/value pair originally does not exist, then the program should add it. But not to the end of the file, but tothe end of a predefined section.
- Config files can have remark lines. Remark text can be even at the same line than the key/value pair. After modifying the value, the original remark text should not change at the end of the line. The remark-starting symbol is not always.
- The values in configuration files are not always simple numbers or simple words, but in rare cases, they are composed by more words, for example: item=name address phone
And of course, we can have remark at the end, like this: item=name address phone # remark text
- The key-value separator depends on the file. Some files use "key=value" format, some other use "key value" format, or even "key1 key2 value", like xorg.conf. The as separator can also occur.
- Case sensitivity can also be an issue.
- Sometime to desired task is not to modify a value, but to add or remove a line beginning remark to a certain line.
I think that managing all these possible cases by a perl or sed program is nearly impossible. I begun to write a C program, but maybe there is already one?
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Oct 2, 2010
On a Fedora Core box, I have a normal non-privileged user and I also have sole access to the root account. Because I am the only administrator of this box, I frequently su over to root for administrative tasks. The problem is that many of the user configuration I've become accustomed to are only configured on my day-to-day account (.vimrc, .bashrc, .screenrc, etc). Other than giving my day-to-day user account privileges to perform administration tasks, how would I go about sharing configuration between these two accounts?
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Feb 22, 2011
I want to see what is the configuration of my Wind River Linux (actually I want to see what modules are installed in it when it was built). I can't find the configuration file.
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May 21, 2010
I have a slow machine, mainly a Celeron with 250gb HD.This machine is not being used, so I was planning to install a Linux distro and create a bunch of VMs for development.Which distro should I choose? I plan to use this machine mainly as a small "hypervisor" to other vms.Is it possible? What do you suggest? (Buying another machine is out of question, since I would like to know if it's possible give a purpose like this to the Celeron)
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Mar 30, 2014
Before I used to make a copy of configuration file and give the end of the file name as 'something.conf.bkp' . Later realized it was a mistake. The correct wording should end in .bak and not bkp .
As per (See apt.conf(5) manpage, section DIRECTORIES, last paragraph.)
The Ignore-Files-Silently list can be used to specify which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the fragment directories. Per default a file which end with .disabled, ~, .bak or .dpkg-[a-z]+ is silently ignored. As seen in the last default value these patterns can use regular expression syntax.
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Jun 23, 2014
I just moved from Ubuntu to Debian, managed to get the WiFi printer working, installed flash player etc. Just seemed to have trouble opening files over the LAN, is there a firewall setting I need to set. Files work fine if i copy them to the desktop and open them from there but not over the LAN. I have looked on the web with no luck.
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Feb 10, 2016
I am trying to access logs Apache logs (I just installed Apache) and it is giving me permission denied errors. What permissions did you give to yourself in order to access these logs or should I just add this user(myself) to adm group?I can access other log files with no problems for example ssh logs.
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Jan 31, 2010
I run a Squeeze system and have recently updated various packages. As far as I can tell one of the changes has deprecated HAL FDI files (used for, among other things, configuring various input devices). I am hence wondering how one should go about configuring such devices --- without having to resort to an xorg.conf file.The two devices in question, an TouchPad and TrackPoint can both be configured via XInput when I log-in, however, it is somewhat tedious. Writing a log-on script to do this also seems rather hacky.So my question is: what is the most elegant way of configuring XInput devices?
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Jan 1, 2011
i want to make a script to change the sound configuration from "balanced right/left and low volume" to "louder right speaker and louder volume" and back.i want to learn where i can find the configuration file and what command i have to use to restart pulse audio after my script changes the file.(if you can also tell me what the changes have to be to get the above mentioned results , i will send you a tasty popcorn emoticon )
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Aug 31, 2010
Lately I adapted my /etc/fstab to mount samba shared network drives. I had to put the password in the configuration file in order to log in automatically. Isn't there another way? It feels a little akward to me to put passwords in a plain text-file.
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Jul 6, 2010
This is what I would like to do:
- Deliver a number of configuration files via rpm.
Why? Because we use RedHat and it is easier to put them in a repo an keep versions of it.I have looked for manuals/turorials about rpmbuild but it is all centred around buiding rpms from source, or tarballs, in order to deliver a program.I just want to deliver configuration files.I know, I could do that with satellite or spacewalk, but they are not an option, plus I want to keep it simple.I have the spec file too. What I don't understand is:In which dir should I put the files I would like to pack? What sections of the spec file should I fill in, as not all apply?
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Nov 11, 2010
I am currently writing an engine using SDL and openGL, and while I've gotten it mostly done, I've never really learned how to read configuration files. The configuration files that I'm hoping on using will be a straight forward syntax using "#" for comments and variables will be declared using "foo=hello". I don't need a lot of items in the configuration files, but enough to change needed settings. I'm not wanting to use external libraries (how are you going to learn if you can't do it yourself? :P) and I'm hoping to write it from scratch. If someone could please point me to a tutorial on how to do this or even some working code I may be able to figure it out. I am using the C programming language also(as I like it more than C++, sorry).
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Aug 15, 2011
Occasionally, with no warning and no cause that I've been able to see, everything that I try to open will produce an error message saying that an associated configuration file For example, I try to open dolphin, and I get a message saying: 'Configuration file "/home/<user>/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator.' I get similar ones for konsole, open office, and everything else I try to open, except firefox, which I installed by hand. Konsole still works after this error, but dolphin and open office do not. This never happens directly after startup (it usually happens about an hour after), and always happens to everything - I never get this message for just one program, while everything else works fine. I've tried deleting /home/<user>/.kde/ to 'reset' kde, but that hasn't helped. In case it helps, I'm running Squeeze (amd64) with kde 4.4.5.
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Jul 27, 2011
I have several mails which I want to scan by using spamc and thats the problem.
It works when I use just one mail message as a parameter of spamc. E.g. spamc -c < 17383. BUT when I want to pass several messages on spamc e.g. spamc -c < 17383. 18974.(spamc scan just the first message) OR when I use a whole directory e.g. spamc < ./test/* it doesnt work. (output: -bash: ./test/*: ambiguous redirect)
how to pass multiple files in command line on spamc? I know - I can create a script, but I would be glad if it worked for testing in CLI (command above).
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Aug 9, 2010
I'm trying to find kdm configuration files where I could add post user login script to execute. I just cannot figure out what files are read and executed at what time. I'm trying to load ICC profile after user login. I needs to be executed by root before starting users KDE/Gnome/... session. Loading ICC profile requires running X, so /etc/init.d would not work. Setting s bit on a script run by user is the last resort due to obvious security implication. ... produced nothing useful. I would know what to do in older SuSE versions. In Ubuntu I'd put it in /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default ...
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Jan 27, 2010
Does anyone know where the Gedit configuration file/s are located?I knowthat the ~/.cache/ contains some information and deleting it removes the most recent documents list in the File menu.However, if I wanted to remove the most recent Find and Replace information which appears in the drop-down box when you choose Find or Replace, what file would I need to remove or edit.
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May 20, 2010
In my system, I see two syslog configuration files, /etc/rsyslog.conf and /etc/syslog.conf.. What is the use of each file? I know only that of /etc/syslog.conf...how about /etc/rsyslog.conf? what is its use?
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Feb 20, 2010
I am searching for a program which may be used in order to display a list of modified (non-distribution-default) configuration files. For example, assume we have installed package "example-utility" which uses /etc/example-utility.conf as one of its configuration files. The package provides a default configuration file upon its installation. Assume we have modified /etc/example-utility.conf according to our needs. This file should be included in the listing produced by the program I am looking for.
If such a tool does not exist, I would like to create it. However, I am new to RPM-based systems, and, as such, I am having difficulties finding the necessary documentation. Should I be reading the yum source code? Is there some sort of document describing the package database on RH/CentOS/etc. systems and how 3rd party applications are supposed to work with this database?
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Aug 2, 2015
Having an issue with rsync
I launch the following
Code: Select allrsync -avz --remove-source-files --log-file=/home/pi/rsync.log --temp-dir
=/data/temp --partial --progress -e "ssh" 192.168.1.100://data/ext/downloads/File.ext /data/
Basically I download to main PC and rsync to my pi as the pi has a fraction of the speed for some reason when downloading form a source outside of my network.
The first few files will sync fine. Then I start getting errors like this
Code: Select allrsync: rename "/data/temp/.File.ext.y1716M" -> "File.ext": No such file or directory
(2)
The directory on the host has user and group ownership as pi. Rsync has been setup to login without a password.
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Sep 16, 2010
I have a TV/radio tuner and I installed the gkrellm-radio plugin. The plugin works fine, but, it only works with /dev/radio. I'm not sure if its safe to rename files so I just create a symlink of /dev/radio0 as /dev/radio.
It gets pretty annoying to me to have to create a symlink every time I start up my computer so I can listen to the radio. Is there a way to get linux to permanently name "/dev/radio0" as "/dev/radio"?
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Oct 3, 2010
I was trying to update my debian lenny and aptitude gives a whole lot of errors about files it can't fetch due to a 404 error. Aparently de files i need are no longer available in the places they where supposed to on de Debian-servers.It concerns 35 packages that can't be updated. If nescessary I can post all the package-names and versions (old and updated). I'll give the two first as examples :
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