On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:43 +0530, kaushal wrote: > Hello all, > Iam not an admin,but out of my interest I want to know the > significance of various "basic" configuration files and their usage in > the /etc directory.Can someone kindly send me a link that would be > useful in this aspect or share "your own" tutorial. A critical sampling of these files are well documented in man pages. The following commands will get you started: man 5 passwd man 5 shadow man 5 services man 5 hosts man 5 inittab You can try the same with many of the other files in /etc/. -- Thornton Prime <thornton@xxxxxxxxxxx> - : 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
