/etc: Systemwide directory where many of the startup scripts and configuration files for a Linux system are stored. (From et cetera, for miscellaneous text files.)

You should spend time exploring this directory and learning more.

See FHS#3_7_etc_Host_specific_system_con.

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 24 Jan 2002
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