Questions tagged [etc]

Questions about files beneath `/etc`: How to handle them, how they are important, how to make backups, how to find important information.

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Localhost port aliased

I wanted to use /etc/hosts to define "aliases" for multiple services localhosted like: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1:8080 machin 127.0.0.1:8081 truc But it doesn't seem to work, surely because /...
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How to configure two Epson scanners on my PC (18.04)

I want to configure a second epson scanner device on my PC. Does anybody know the format of required lines in imagescan.conf (epson scanner interface configuration - V3)? My first scanner, a Epson ...
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/etc/gdm3/Prime and /etc/gdm3/PrimeOff in ubuntu 18.04

When are these files executed and what's their use?
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Revert system fie premissions

I have mistakely changed the permission of the entire etc directory to 777. Now I'm getting frequent errors like ... is world writable! Is there a way to revert back to the default permission? ...
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Move from booted RAID to single drive

Have Ubuntu 22.04 server installed on RAID5. It boots from /. I'd like to move it to a new SSD single drive though. My thoughts to do this is: Make a backup of / with some software on backup ...
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"/etc" directory is missing or corrupted in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Hello fellows Ubuntu users ! I hope this is not a duplicate but I need help on my computer. Since I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu (both 20.04 LTS), I keep having issues with this computer. I thought ...
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not able to sync from server to server to /etc/letsencrypt location

I am making a cron job on my server node that uses haproxy base concated cert file from letsencrypt. however when I am at home I have same dns pointing to the home server which is actually hosting the ...
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Why does default-string appear after hostname in etc/hosts?

Referencing: This question The author is asking how to change hostname when it includes the appendage ´default-string´, If root is required to change the file in the path etc/hosts should this be ...
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Error found while loading /etc/profile: /etc/profile.d/01-locale-fix.sh: line 2: /usr/bin/locale-check: No such file or directory

I'm a newbie, 3 months into Ubuntu, running 20.04 from 18.04 and 19.10.
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Why shutdown button only works when HDMI monitor is connected

It sounds weird, but I configured my Ubuntu 18.04-4 LTS to shutdown immediately when I press the power button but it works fine ONLY when the HDMI monitor is connected. If I disconnect the monitor (I ...
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logrotate does not produce any output

I set up a logrotate configuration file containing containing two entries. the file contains the following: /var/www/designer-24.com/var/log/* { daily missingok rotate 7 dateext ...
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change /etc/group folder location

I'm using docker with ubuntu and I need to mount /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/gshadow /etc/passwd inside an external volume, in order to avoid the password loosing each time I've to rebuild the ...
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Which /etc/pam.d file for a regular terminal?

I have edited /etc/security/limits.conf to set the ulimit rtprio permanently. If I ssh to localhost or open a shell with su it works fine, but if I just log in to Ubuntu (16.04) and open a Gnome ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 run python script when login screen is displayed (rc.local and lightdm not working)

I want to run this command when the login screen that prompts for your password is displayed: python ~/blabla/unlock.py &. I've tried using both lightdm and rc.local to no avail. Any help is ...
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Change the color of the text that appears at the beginning of startup

I would like to know how to make the "OK" in "[ OK ]" green, like there is displayed at the startup of OpenSuse: Starting xxxxxxxxxx [ OK ] <- Green Color Starting xxxxxxxxxx [ OK ] <- ...
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How can I backup the whole system status (not documents)?

I want to backup my system status, like Installed Packeges What's on my sidebar Grub Settings Kernel... in order to restore it in case of system crash. I don't care about my document, music, files ...
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ubuntu 14.04 won't boot: run-init: /etc/init: Permission denied

I think something I installed caused this. When I try booting this is what happens: run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. run-init: /etc/...
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./etc/opt/OS is taking the 49GB of my space while it's not a dir

du -cha --max-depth=1 /etc/opt/OS | grep -E "M|G" 49G /etc/opt/OS 49G total root:/etc/opt# cd /etc/opt/OS bash: cd: /etc/opt/OS: Not a directory root:/etc/opt# dir OS what is the ...
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/etc files security/hardening (sudo)

On Ubuntu 22.04, is that possible to deny ALL /etc files modifications and grant ONLY specific file(s) running as sudo? ex: sudo text-mode-editor-filtered-path /etc/hostname If /etc/hostname absolute ...
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/etc setting to ping as non-root freely

Since some not long time ping stopped working as non-root (I'm not sure if it distro-wide or maybe it is my custom kernel). The ping is fixed by this command: sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range="...
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Reset the printing system

To debug some printing problems (printing through the usual printing dialog), I would like to reset the printing system to its initial state, cleanly removing all automatically and "manually"...
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deleted /etc/environment file by accident

I deleted the /etc/environment file by accident. Is it important? What does it do? How can I recover it? I saw another post saying most of the time the file has the same generic line: PATH="/usr/...
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Ubuntu 20.04 often freezes before login. Error with /etc/profile

I am quite new to Ubuntu. For a month, my system has frozen 2 out of every 3 times when it reached the login screen. Dual boot with GRUB was fine. Keyboard was responsive and I could switch between ...
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issued certificated has expired

I have download the code from GitHub and tried to build the project, but receive the following error: issued certificate expired The same project already exists on the system and no error is thrown. ...
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How can I get a list of files that I modified/added in /etc and other paths outside of the home folder?

Over the years, I've been making tweaks to my Ubuntu system, such as adding files to /etc, to customize it. I now want to do a fresh re-installation of Ubuntu, and I want to capture all of these ...
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There is something wrong with this file in dispatcher.d? My wireless connections are insanely instable

# strings 01-ifupdown: #!/bin/sh -e # Script to dispatch NetworkManager events # Runs ifupdown scripts when NetworkManager fiddles with interfaces. # See NetworkManager(8) for further documentation of ...
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/etc/profile not sourced on ubuntu 20.10

I am a newbie on ubuntu. I have used CentOS for several years but change to Ubuntu. I install ubuntu 20.10 desktop on virtual machine and oracle jdk and anaconda 2020-12 on it. And I set JAVA_HOME and ...
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Why my messages in /etc/motd are not showing?

My welcome message is not showing, how do I check if it is enabled or disabled
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problems with my /etc/profile

I am a rookie in ubuntu, I tried to install java but I think it was installed yet (I didn't check it before, sorry), now an error pops up appears in my screen every time I log in /etc/profile: line 28:...
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Core18: Configure /etc/issue and /etc/motd in custom image

I'd like to give users instructions to log into a web interface via /etc/issue when installing my image, however, the root directory is read only in Ubuntu Core. Is there a clever way this can be done ...
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What is causing parsing error in my /etc/fstab

I am trying to mount Google Drive, but I am getting the following error: mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 12 -- ignored mount: /home/kao/Google Drive: can't find in /etc/fstab. The line is ...
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Shadow File Permissions

I have some issues with files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Both of them are without permissions. And I don't know how this happened or why. Basically I can't edit/remove these files or change ...
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Error found when loading /etc/profile [mariadb,mysql]

Booting to Ubuntu 19.04 I get black screen (frozen and not able to press the OK button) with this error message popup: Error found when loading /etc/profile find:'/usr/lib/mysql/plugin/...
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how to add persistent route on a container

Since up route add [-net|-host] / gw dev going into cd /etc/network/interfaces doesn't work. How can i add persistent routes so the route is still there when it boots. I was told /etc/systemd/...
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Update /etc/crontab to quit a process as root every other minute during working hours

How can i update /etc/crontab to quit a process as root every other minute during working hours, as in this case is 0800-1600, monday-saturday. How can I also allow the same process to be active ...
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/etc/environment not work

I declare PATH="/usr/local/anaconda2/bin:/mnt/code/tool:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" in /etc/environment. But when I re-login, $ echo $...
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/etc/hosts configuration error , ping not working

I am newbie to ubuntu plus kerberos , trying to configure kerberos in my vm ubuntu by i am not able to pass the step 2 in configuring hosts .below are the files. i am in the process of learning so ...
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autofs is not able to mount the remote folder

Hi I am trying to automount remote file system using autofs. For this I installed autofs % sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs Then I edited /etc/auto.master to have the following line: /ufs /...
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Where is the source file for commands in /etc/init.d

I am completely new to ubuntu and all commands. I can see list of things inside etc/init.d. I have hadoop-hdfs-namenode in my /etc/init.d. I want to edit the source file of that command so that i can ...
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Prevent package manager recreating files in /etc/fonts/conf.d/

I use a bitmap font for my terminal windows. In order for this to work, I need to enable bitmap fonts. In /etc/fonts/conf.d/ there's a symlink called 70-no-bitmaps.conf to the matching configuration ...
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Brightness Save on Reboot

I have a problem where the brightness does not save after a reboot on 14.04 LTS, but I had the same problem on 12.04 LTS (before I broke the system). Before you say this is a duplicate of a million ...
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/ect/hosts file error

I am having some issues while running apt-get from my command line. I looked into some answers in askubuntu and found that we have to edit /etc/hosts file. The only entries present in that were more /...
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