On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:26:26AM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: > Having a small problem instructing Debian not to update config files > that I want to control myself. For example, I have a remote Debian > syslog server and I've edited its /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd file to > our own specific log rotation scheme and now, I need to instruct > Debian to *never* touch this file while doing updates, but I don't > understand how to do this. Could someone point me to information that > describes how to do this?
You don't need to. /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd is a conffile of the sysklogd package, and therefore dpkg will never overwrite it without explicit permission from the user. By policy, everything in /etc must have local changes preserved on upgrade. (This rule is currently bent slightly for certain generated files, which is still a topic of somewhat heated discussion - but at the very least those should all have a note at the top saying that they're generated.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
