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what if an erroe occur in etc file??? [closed]

etc0 etc1 failed??the whole system hangs what shhould i do know which of these applications' config files do I use? All of these supply an /etc-based global configuration file, that affects all ...
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configuration ethics (esthetics): /etc vs $HOME

Ok this may not be a very concrete question, and is perhaps subject to taste, yet I'm struggling to get this right so here it goes. I have a computer. This computer has linux on it (thank god). Arch ...
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What is the purpose of `/etc/group-`

On a standard Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu) there is usually /etc/group and /etc/group-, where the second one is only readable by root. man group only describes /etc/group. Thus my question: What ...