On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
> In my reading I discovered that ...rc stands for "run commands" Thus .pinerc
> is the file that contains the "commands to run" when you open pine. .bashrc are
> the list of commands to run when bash starts, etc. Coming from the
> DOS/Windows world this is sort of like a autoexec.bat-configuration file
> combination.
>
> What I am having trouble figuring out is the logic as to "where" the various
> ....rc files are to be found. Many seem to be in various locations outside the
> home directory. It does not seem right that one should have to "discover"
> their locations one at a time and then remember where they are for later use I
> would like to create a folder on my desktop that contains kdelinks (symlinks?)
> to all the important ones so that they would be easily available to look
> at and modify without having to hunt for them.
>
> To do that, I need a list of where they are and where they can be found or at
> least the logic linux uses to place them here or there. Could someone help
> provide this list? At least the important ones that control the functioning of
> Mandrake 7.1 and the various interfaces such as gnome, kde, etc.?
Most of the system wide rc files are in /etc.
But this list will vary from a system to another, as those files come with
the packages they are related to.
Beside, there are a lot of config files that end with ".conf".
So, you will find all of them by running :
find / -name "*rc" -o -name "*conf"
If you want, you can also automatically create the symlinks :
mkdir ~/configfiles
find / -name "*rc" -o -name "*conf" -exec ln -s {} ~/configfiles \;
(remove the '-o -name "*.conf"' if you want only the rc files)
HTH
Flupke
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