1 etcutils is a package that provides standalone utilities to manipulate some
2 of the configuration files in /etc in a programmatic manner. Some of these
3 files can be seen as databases and, as such, they should have tools to
6 The utilities provided by etcutils are designed to permit their integration
7 into packaging systems. Once integrated, packages can use these tools to
8 automatically modify these system-wide configuration files without having
9 to care about portability issues. Of course, these utilities provide a
10 command-line interface that resembles that of other standard tools, and
11 thus their manual usage is also possible.
13 The following utilities are provided:
15 * services(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the
18 * shells(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the