fredagen den 16 november 2001 13.14 Florin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oden Eriksson) writes:
> > Well, I thought it would be nice to have a new "/etc/sysconfig/snort"
> > file, instead of making the softlinks in "/usr/sbin/*". Very much like
> > the other config files in "/etc/sysconfig/*" for the daemons.
> >
> > A bad idea?
>
> The snort conf file does not deal with the binary ... but the intitscript
> does. The /etc/snort/conf file will be the same for all cases.
> Of course, one could use an /etc/sysconfig/snort file with a contents
> like:
>
> BINARY="snort-bloat" and then use that in the initscript with
> daemon /usr/sbin/$BINARY -u snort -g snort -s -d -D \ ...
>
> or, we could extend that even for the snort config file used and use a
> different conf file in /etc/sysconfig/snort ...
>
> so, in the post section of every package one should parse and update the
> /etc/sysconfig/snort file ...
>
> I thing it's more complicated than the actual case when one uses only one
> config file and we only replace actual links in post section ...
>
> just my thoughts ...

Yeah, you're right. A bad idea.

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