I think you need to be a little more specific in your question. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
I can give you a general answer. The traditional UNIX file that stores configuraion data is called a "resources" file, and programs that follow this tradition usually have "rc" files that are stored as "hidden" files in your home directory. Thus, for instance, many of the basic personalization configuration options for the bash shell are in the file ".bashrc". If you look at your files and include the hidden directories you will likely see a number of files and directories that are names ".xxxrc" where "xxx" is the name of the program it provides configuration data to. A second tradition is to have configuration directories and files that are named after the program. Thus there is a .mozilla directory in my home directory that contains configuration data for my firefox program. There is a ".freecol" directory that stores configuration files and saved games for the open-source game "freecol." More recently, there has been a movement to collect connfiguration files into a single hidden directory called (in Fedora, at least) ".config" Some programs make use of some of more than one option. Thus, bash uses ".bashrc", ".bash-profile", ".bash-history", and other files. Finally, there are configuration files scattered all over the computer if you are talking about system files. Many are collected in the /etc directory. However, that's not the only place. Some programs store stuff in /usr/share. Some are in devoted directories (for instance, some of the web configuration stuff for your webserver, if you have one, is in /var/www). The closest thing linux has to the Windows "registry" is the contents of the /etc directory. billo On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, jbander wrote:
I have to name a file to store application settings. video settings being one of them, you know all the things you put into the program that you want to save so you don't have to put it in every time you go on line. Were is a good place to keep them and what would that address be. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
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