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
>
>
check something like this:
yum provides '/etc/*'

Some other files may be written by rpm-installation scripts...