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Re: config files obfuscation [was: Configuring NFS under Linux for Firewall control]



On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:13 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Ok, so then here's my not-so-pet peeve:
> There are all kinds of clever and remarkable things that the rc.d system
> is performing, but they are useless if a sysadmin cannot figure them out
> without either reading up acres of large shell scripts in /etc or
> chancing upon a bit of documentation that has the relevant info (not
> that i've seen anything in the docs related to the issue i was
> describing).
> 
> I already noticed that there are all kinds of arcane config bits in
> places such as /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* that can be
> very handy, but there's no way to unearth them other than printing out
> all essential system scripts in /etc and reading them line by line.
> Honestly, i hate to do that. Not because i'm lazy, but because i'm busy.
> I assume i'm not the only one in this situation.

Try checking out the files in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*.

Particularly, sysconfig.txt.  


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David Hollis <dhollis davehollis com>

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