I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
Configuration for
rootis in/root/, that is,root’s home directory./etcis for system configuration, different thing.The only thing I knew for certain was that I would be corrected ;)