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Chapter 28. The sysconfig Directory
• Network configuration files for each configured network interface, such as ifcfg-eth0 for the
eth0 Ethernet interface.
• Scripts used to bring network interfaces up and down, such as ifup and ifdown.
• Scripts used to bring ISDN interfaces up and down, such as ifup-isdn and ifdown-isdn.
• Various shared network function scripts which should not be edited directly.
For more information on the network-scripts directory, refer to
Interfaces.
rhn/
This directory contains the configuration files and GPG keys for Red Hat Network. No files in this
directory should be edited by hand. For more information on Red Hat Network, refer to the Red
Hat Network website online at https://rhn.redhat.com/.

28.3. Additional Resources

This chapter is only intended as an introduction to the files in the /etc/sysconfig/ directory. The
following source contains more comprehensive information.

28.3.1. Installed Documentation

• /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version-number>/sysconfig.txt — This file contains a
more authoritative listing of the files found in the /etc/sysconfig/ directory and the configuration
options available for them. The <version-number> in the path to this file corresponds to the
version of the initscripts package installed.
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