Hello kaushal, Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 1:13:22 PM, you wrote: k> Hello all, k> Iam not an admin,but out of my interest I want to know the k> significance of various "basic" configuration files and their usage in k> the /etc directory.Can someone kindly send me a link that would be k> useful in this aspect or share "your own" tutorial. k> Thanks in advance. there are many sites... I hope this one helps you: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ -- Cheers, César mailto:csoler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html