Location of useful programe in Linux

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If you are trying to find a program, log into the shell.

Type the command:

# whereis <program>

where program is the program you are looking for, will show you one or more possibilities for what you are looking for.

If you have more than one copy of a program, say one in /usr/bin and another in /usr/local/bin/ ,

typing "which program" will show you which one will be called first.

If you can't find it at all, type command:

# locate <program>

will show you everyfile that matches "program".

Some of the most common programs :
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/bin/perl
/bin/mail
/usr/bin/php

Default locations for most commonly used configuration files and important directories:

Exim

/etc/exim.conf
/var/log/exim_mainlog
/var/log/exim_rejectlog
/etc/valiases/
/etc/vfilters/
/home/username/.forward

MySQL

/root/.my.cnf
/etc/my.cnf
/var/lib/mysql/

Apache
/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/

System
/var/log/messages
/var/log/dmesg

Proftpd
/etc/proftpd.conf
/var/log/xferlog
/etc/proftpd/

sshd
/etc/ssh/sshd_config