7. Customize
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## 7. Customize

samhain comes with default configuration files for several operating systems: `samhainrc.linux`, `samhainrc.solaris`, `samhainrc.freebsd`, `samhainrc.aix5.2.0`(and `yulerc` for the server). The installation routine will choose the one matching closest your system, or fall back to `samhainrc.linux`, if no good match could be found. However, all these configuration files are kept very general, and most probably you want to adjust settings like:

- which files/directories should be checked

- which logging facilities should be used

The default location of the configuration file is `/etc/samhainrc`(see Section 10 ). To customize, type:

            sh$ vi /etc/samhainrc

The default configuration file is heavily commented to help you. For a list of all runtime configuration directives, please have a look at Appendix C .

If you have any typos or other errors in your configuration file, samhain will log warning messages upon startup including the corresponding line number of the configuration file.

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