The role of .local (centsos)

January 25, 2014 1.6k views
poudenes
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Hi All, Read articles of configuration like postfix, fail2ban etc.. And sometimes i see that they let you save the original config file like jail.conf to jail.local and you need change everything on the .local instead of .conf I think that when i create a .local centos will read that file instead of the .conf file is that right? So i can hold the .conf file as it is (original) Can i do that with all the config files .conf?
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kamaln7 MOD January 26, 2014
I think that when i create a .local centos will read that file instead of the .conf file is that right?

Almost. fail2ban reads that file, not CentOS. Which makes the answer to Can i do that with all the config files .conf? a no. It depends on whether the program you're going to run supports that or not.

As far as I know, .config/.jail is fail2ban specific. Postfix does not support that.
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