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136 Part II . Running the Show . /etc/pcmcia Contains configuration files that allow you to have a variety of PCMCIA cards configured for your computer. (PCMCIA slots are those openings on your laptop that enable you to have credit card sized cards attached to your computer. You can attach such devices as modems and external CD-ROMs.) . /etc/postfix Contains configuration files for the postfix mail transport agent. . /etc/ppp Contains several configuration files used to set up Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) so that you can have your computer dial out to the Internet. . /etc/rc?.d There is a separate rc?.d directory for each valid system state: rc0.d (shutdown state), rc1.d (single-user state), rc2.d (multiuser state), rc3.d (multiuser plus networking state), rc4.d (user-defined state), rc5.d (multiuser, networking, plus GUI login state), and rc6.d (reboot state). . /etc/security Contains files that set a variety of default security conditions for your computer. These files are part of the pam (pluggable authentication modules) package. . /etc/skel Any files contained in this directory are automatically copied to a user s home directory when that user is added to the system. By default, most of these files are dot (.) files, such as .kde (a directory for setting KDE desktop defaults) and .bashrc (for setting default values used with the bash shell). . /etc/sysconfig Contains important system configuration files that are created and maintained by various services (including iptables, samba, and most networking services). These files are critical for Linux distributions that use GUI administration tools but not used on other Linux systems at all. . /etc/xinetd.d Contains a set of files, each of which defines a network service that the xinetd daemon listens for on a particular port. When the xinetd daemon process receives a request for a service, it uses the information in these files to determine which daemon processes to start to handle the request. Table 4-1 /etc Configuration Files of Interest File Description aliases Can contain distribution lists used by the Linux mail service. (This file may be located in /etc/mail.) bashrc Sets system-wide defaults for bash shell users. (This may be called bash.bashrc on some Linux distributions.) crontab Sets cron environment and times for running automated tasks. csh.cshrc Sets system-wide defaults for csh (C shell) users. (or cshrc) exports Contains a list of local directories that are available to be shared by remote computers using the Network File System (NFS).
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