Questions tagged [etc]
etc is config path under Unix-like operating systems.
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Where to place modules settings, /etc/modprobe.d or /lib/modprobe.d?
My man modprobe.d says the following:
NAME
modprobe.d - Configuration directory for modprobe
SYNOPSIS
/lib/modprobe.d/*.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
/run/modprobe.d/*....
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Do I have to specify new added domain in /etc/host?
I purchased a new domain, then set correctly the DNS records (A ...). The domain points to my server, then Apache VirtualHost intercepts the HTTP queries.
The question, is simple : do I have to add ...
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Adding /etc/environment makes bash fail
On RHEL 6.7, I've added the file /etc/environment:
JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_91"
JRE_HOME="{JAVA_HOME}/jre"
M2_HOME="/usr/local/apache-maven"
M2="{M2_HOME}/bin"
PATH="{JAVA_HOME}/bin:{JRE_HOME}/bin:{...
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Folder /etc/rc.d was removed from Synology NAS [closed]
I was installing the Syncrify package when I created a file to place it in the /etc/rc.d directory, guiding by the following tutorial:
http://web.synametrics.com/syncrifyfreenas.htm
But, when I tried ...
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first program to run after ssh connection
I have a user 'test' and I had modified /etc/passwd file to run a certain script of my own (lets call it somescript.sh) whenever 'test' logs-in or does ssh.
I later changed the '/etc/passwd' file to ...
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EtcKeeper: Switching from bzr to git
I've been using etckeeper on my Digital Ocean droplet for sometime and have made numerous changes to the /etc since that time.
I now realize that i've been using bzr all this time and would like to ...
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Can I publish to multiple distinct etcd clusters from a single host?
I have a number of distinct etcd clusters, I would like to be centrally controlled:
I have multiple distinct etcd clusters. Hosts in one cluster should not have any access to config in another ...
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Why this change to /etc/limits does not work
I have made below changes to /etc/limits file for limiting the number of logins for a particular user from ssh.
rajan L2
rajan is username here.
After making these changes I logged out from session ...
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Does exportfs disrupt users already utilizing those filesystems?
I need to modify a servers /etc/exports file to export to an additional host. After modifying this file, for it to take effect (i.e. for the additional host to have access to the designated ...
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Restore old /etc onto newer system (CentOS)
In order to save space, I don't backup /usr (except /usr/local), /bin, /sbin and /lib. Instead I do a rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' to get a list of packages I need to install to restore the content of ...
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Why is there no git repository after installing etckeeper?
I installed etckeeper on my ubuntu 11.10 server, and after creating the etckeeper repository with:
etckeeper init
etckeeper commit "Initial version"
I got the error:
bzr: ERROR: No changes to ...
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How to keep track of the serverconfiguration: keep entire “/etc” in git
I want to keep my whole /etc folder in a git repository to track unauthorised changes by intruders and find out mistakes I could have done myself.
What would be the right way to achieve this?
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useradd with -d option do not create skeleton files
When I create a user with useradd command in centos 5, the home directory is created and its /etc/skel files are copied to that directory but when i give useradd with -doption to some different path ...
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Is there any any merit to routinely restore a linux system, even if unnecessary?
I do fieldwork with a number of computers running ubuntu performing critical tasks doing fieldwork. The computers are similarly configured with slight variations.
Since we've had some configuration ...
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Access to another user files [closed]
I have logged in as "userc". I need access to all the files that "usera" has. I have edited the following file,
vi /etc/group
usera:x:1000:userb,userc
But this does not seem to work.
I am still ...
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Temporarily change etc/hosts file on a windows workstation
Is there a tool, that allows an individual to temporarily switch between different etc/hosts configurations, without setting up a dns?
Example:
I would like to quickly change the etc/hosts config ...
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Correct user names when tracking /etc/ in git repository and committing as root
We use git to track changes in /etc/ on our servers.
Administrators work as root when changing files in /etc/, and thus their commits have author
root <root@machinename>
This is not very ...
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drivers/etc/hosts doesn't work in Windows Server 2008
the following line in hosts file in windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts doesnt work
127.0.0.1 gotomylocal.com
I'm using Windows Server 2008, I'm new and configured Windows Server 2008 unconsciously ...
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Putting /etc under source control
I would like to put my /etc directory iunder source control using bazaar.
Are there any gotchas in doing this. It seems safer to do it user an ordinary user rather than root - might there a be a ...
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What's the most widely used pronunciation of the Unix /etc directory?
What is the correct pronunciation of the directory /etc? Or, if there isn't a definitively "correct" way to say it, what is the most widely used pronunciation?
I usually say the letter names spelled ...
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Is it possible to use etckeeper with a single shared git repository?
I noticed that several people have recommended using etckeeper to apply version control to my /etc directory.
It appears to me that the default install puts a repository on the same machine as the /...
