On 2013-05-22 17:45, Joseph Thomas Szep wrote:
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
If it's config files you're interested in, `rpm -qc ...` should
limit that to just files the packager considers config'able.
Taking that one step further, this should get you a list of all
such files:
rpm -qac | grep -v -e '(contains no files)'
Keep in mind though that what the packager considers to be a
config file (or for some other reason has marked as such) does
not always correspond to what normally would be considered such.
I certainly wouldn't have thought of /var/lib/rpm/* as configs...
