ini are often used.Īlmost all formats allow comments, in which case, individual settings can be disabled by prepending with the comment character. 1.1 Unix and Unix-like operating systemsĬonfiguration files and operating systems Unix and Unix-like operating systems Īcross Unix-like operating systems many different configuration-file formats exist, with each application or service potentially having a unique format, but there is a strong tradition of them being in human-editable plain text, and a simple key–value pair format is common.1 Configuration files and operating systems.There are no definitive standards or strong conventions. Users can instruct some programs to re-read the configuration files and apply the changes to the current process, or indeed to read arbitrary files as a configuration file. Others periodically check the configuration files for changes. Some computer programs only read their configuration files at startup. For server processes and operating-system settings, there is often no standard tool, but operating systems may provide their own graphical interfaces such as YaST or debconf. For other programs, system administrators may be expected to create and modify files by hand using a text editor, which is possible because many are human-editable plain text files. Some applications provide tools to create, modify, and verify the syntax of their configuration files these sometimes have graphical interfaces. They are used for user applications, server processes and operating system settings. In computing, configuration files (commonly known simply as config files) are files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for some computer programs. For Microsoft Windows resource scripts, see Resource (Windows).
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