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What is the purpose of /etc/default?

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Mar 15, 202620086 views
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For the first time I was asked by a daemon I installed to set a flag in there. What's it for? Is it a newish concept?

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From a post on a Slackware forum: ... this is a Debian concept that has been adopted by a few packages. Basically, /etc/default contains some parameters that the end user or administrator is likely to change, rather than embedding the values in the …

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