Recognize common, possibly third-party, server configuration files

Author: Cezary Morga cm@therek.net FreeBSD

Reviewer: name contact BSD flavour

Concept

BSD systems are often used to provide Internet services. Be able to view or make a specified change to a service's configuration file and recognize the names of the most commonly used configuration files and which applications they are associated with.

Introduction

Here is a quick listing of common server program names and configuration filenames with brief descriptions and sample configuration syntax. This book doesn't cover these server configurations or maintenance.

TODO: please keep this section under a few printed pages.

Examples

Apache HTTPD

Note: this is included as part of OpenBSD.

BIND "named"

This is included in default install.

DHCP Daemon

TODO: the BSDs have different implementations, anything common?

Postfix Mail Server

Note: Postfix is included in default install of NetBSD.

TODO: this book doesn't cover Postfix administration, but at least cross-reference to two email sections

Sendmail Mail Server

This is included in default install of DragonFly, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and old versions of NetBSD.

TODO: this book doesn't cover sendmail administration, but at least cross-reference to two email sections

Samba

TODO: note that this is third-party, but also point out some native "smb" tools/features too.

XFree86 or Xorg

TODO: should this be briefly mentioned too?

Practice Exercises

More information

httpd.conf(5), sendmail.cf, master.cf, dhcpd.conf(5), named.conf(5), smb.conf(5)