On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:06:47AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Is there a single list of the various "stock" configuration files
> and directories used by the various applications that come with EL?
> For example, printing configuration is in /etc/cups/*, and there are
> many other examples.
> 
> At one time, this was not as needed as today -- there were far fewer
> applications, and most (all?) had configuration files that were in
> /etc .  Many (most?) of such configuration files in the current
> epoch seem to be in some path from /etc, but it can be a bit of a
> hunt to find these files.
> 
> Yasha Karant


There is no list of these files.  Many systems program config files are in
/etc or a subdirectory below it.

For other programs, particularly third-party packages, the config files
can wind up anywhere.

If you know the name of the package you are interested in, you can see
it's list of files using the command:

	rpm -ql <packagename>

This will list out the full path name of each file in the package.

-Joe


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