How peaceful is your /etc file listing?

Not_Oles

Hello LES!

Here are three screenshots of /etc file listings, from my

• Chromebook Debian Linux container,

• FreeBSD VPS, and

• Void Linux VPS.

Do you feel an emotional reaction to any of these /etc listings? In particular, does any one of the three /etc listings seem more peaceful and attractive than the others?

Please feel free to post a screenshot of your distro's /etc listing!

Thanks!

Tom

Chromebook Debian container

FreeBSD VPS

Void Linux VPS

terrorgen

No opinion. It is what it is.

FrankCastle

I may be biased but FreeBSD looks the best, followed by Void which leaves Debian coming in third. Is that the right answer? Do I win a prize?

Janevski

Why emotional? Just a bunch of generic Linux config junk inside.

yoursunny

We use Windows.
Our HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is squeaky clean.

davide

My basement workstation:

If you notice the timestamps on those files you might recognize that my only hope toward /etc is to spare myself a walk to the basement to crawl behind the bench and plug a monitor into a noisy machine that stopped responding to ssh.

Crab

@Not_Oles Just saying as a friend, you might find more peacefulness for example by going fishing. Perhaps it would be time for you to take a day or two off instead of trying to deep deeper meaning in file listings.

DrNutella

@yoursunny said:
We use Windows.
Our HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is squeaky clean.

I am sorry to hear you use windows. I wish you good luck finding your way back to the Linux realm.

sumo

Here you go, did some Multipass screenshots of Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 before my server expires:

Shot²

/etc stands for Erase That Crap

rm -rf the living shite out of that directory

tmntwitw

Here's one from Slackware 14.0, it's a VirtualBox VM from one of my workstations at home.

Not_Oles

Thanks @tmntwitw! Very relaxingly excellent. Good for meditation. Paging another Slackware fan, @AuroraZero!

allnetstore

Don't look for things to bother yourself unnecessarily

AuroraZero

@Not_Oles said:
Thanks @tmntwitw! Very relaxingly excellent. Good for meditation. Paging another Slackware fan, @AuroraZero!

Eh? Why did you awaken the Yeti?

Not_Oles

I imagined that the Yeti would enjoy seeing yet another Slackware /etc directory listing! Isn't Slackware kinda like 🍦 for a Yeti?

Not_Oles

netbsd# ls /etc
X11                 hosts               nsd                 rc.subr
atf                 hosts.equiv         nsswitch.conf       release
auto_master         hosts.lpd           ntp.conf            remote
autofs              ifconfig.wm0        openldap            resolv.conf
bluetooth           inetd.conf          openssl             rmt
bootptab            iscsi               pam.d               rpc
cgd                 kerberosV           passwd              saslc.d
changelist          kyua                passwd.conf         security
csh.cshrc           localtime           pf.conf             security.conf
csh.login           locate.conf         pf.os               services
csh.logout          login.conf          phones              shells
daily               mail                pkgpath.conf        shrc
daily.conf          mail.rc             postfix             skel
defaults            mailer.conf         powerd              skeykeys
dhcpcd.conf         man.conf            printcap            sliphome
disktab             master.passwd       profile             spwd.db
dm.conf             moduli              protocols           ssh
dumpdates           monthly             pwd.db              sysctl.conf
envsys.conf         monthly.conf        racoon              syslog.conf
floppytab           motd                rbootd.conf         ttyaction
fonts               mrouted.conf        rc                  ttys
fstab               mtree               rc.conf             unbound
ftpchroot           named.conf          rc.conf.bak.M20fJo  weekly
ftpusers            namedb              rc.conf.d           weekly.conf
gettytab            netconfig           rc.d                wpa_supplicant.conf
gpio.conf           networks            rc.local            wscons.conf
group               newsyslog.conf      rc.shutdown         zfs
netbsd# 

AuroraZero

@Not_Oles said:
I imagined that the Yeti would enjoy seeing yet another Slackware /etc directory listing! Isn't Slackware kinda like 🍦 for a Yeti?

/opt is for real Slackers

Not_Oles

Screenshot of your /opt please!

terrorgen

@Not_Oles said:
Screenshot of your /opt please!

Probably full of P0 Linux ISOs

AuroraZero

@Not_Oles said:
Screenshot of your /opt please!

Never giving up a security breach for free

Not_Oles

@AuroraZero said:

@Not_Oles said:
Screenshot of your /opt please!

Never giving up a security breach for free

Good!

caasify

Maybe it would be better to check by "ls -la"

iaecm

@caasify said:
Maybe it would be better to check by "ls -la"

It can be higher density without "-l", but maybe a '-F' flag is better .

Not_Oles

@caasify said:
Maybe it would be better to check by "ls -la"

Hi @caasify!

When I first saw your comment, my initial thought was, "I don't remember ever seeing any dot files in /etc." Then I ranls -laand was reminded of the Posix dot files which always seem present, I guess, in everyls -la` directory listing.

Surprisingly, I also found

-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2022 .pwd.lock

This is in /etc on a Debian container in my Chromebook.

chronos@penguin:/etc$ cat /etc/debian_version 
12.6
chronos@penguin:/etc$ 

Taking a quick look around, I saw

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg02949.html

and

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/10/msg01125.html

Maybe I ought to update the Chromebook container. There is a Chrome OS update pending as well.

When I started this thread, it really was meant to be about the mysterious, cosmic beauty in simplicity. There was something -- something seeming simple -- (but maybe not "really" simple) -- that I liked about the Void /etc screenshot in the OP.

Thanks again @caasify!

Not_Oles

@iaecm said:

@caasify said:
Maybe it would be better to check by "ls -la"

It can be higher density without "-l", but maybe a '-F' flag is better .

Yes! "-F" provides additional helpful information concisely expressed. I wish "-F" were the default. But maybe there is a disadvantage to making "-F" the default for ls?

mikho

I mount everything to /tmp and refuse to reboot

AuroraZero

@mikho said:
I mount everything to /tmp and refuse to reboot

Mine is in ram

Not_Oles

@AuroraZero said: Mine is in ram

This is why MetalVPS got the 256 GB RAM dedis.

mfs

@iaecm said: maybe a '-F' flag is better