Files Flashcards
/etc/fstab
Static information about filesystems.
/etc/hosts
Static information about host names.
/boot/vmlinuz
The Linux kernel file.
/dev/fd0
Device file for first floppy disk drive on the system.
/dev/hda
Device file for the first IDE hard drive on the system.
/dev/null
A dummy device which contains nothing. It can be used to make output go away.
/etc/aliases
Contains aliases used by sendmail and other mail transport agents. Whenever this file is changed newaliases must be run.
/etc/bashrc
Contains global defaults and aliases used by the bash shell.
/etc/crontab
A parent shell script to run commands periodically. It invokes hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly scripts.
/etc/exports
Contains a list of filesystems which may be made available to other systems on the network via NFS.
/etc/group
Holds information regarding security group definitions.
/etc/grub.conf
The grub boot loader configuration file.
/etc/hosts
Contains host names and their corresponding IP addresses used for name resolution whenever a DNS server is unavailable.
/etc/hosts.allow
Contains a list of hosts allowed to access services on this computer.
/etc/hosts.deny
Contains a list of hosts forbidden to access services on this computer.
/etc/inittab
Describes how the INIT process should set up the system in various runlevels.
/etc/issue
Contains the pre-login message, often overwritten by the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script in Red Hat and some other rpm-based Linux distributions.
/etc/lilo.conf
The lilo boot loader configuration file.
/etc/modules.conf
Holds options for configurable system modules.
/etc/motd
This is the message of the day file printed upon login.
/etc/mtab
Status information for currently mounted devices and partitions.
/etc/passwd
Contains information regarding registered system users. Passwords are typically kept in a shadow file for better security.
/etc/printcap
Holds printer setup information.
/etc/profile
Contains global defaults for the bash shell.
