* William A. Rowe, Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > At 08:33 PM 7/17/2002, Greg Ames wrote: > >...since Wednesday, 17-Jul-2002 18:49:31 PDT . Things look fine now, but > >we > >took about a 3 1/2 minute site outage because of: > > > >[Wed Jul 17 18:47:20 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not > >open mime types config file /usr/local/apache/conf/mime.types. > >Configuration Failed > > > >That's the feechur where we no longer copy existing conf/ directories at > >make > >install time. Remind me again: what was wrong with simply not overlaying > >existing files? > > Because folks may have *valuable* and *important* config changes that > shouldn't be wiped out? > > That doesn't mean we couldn't overlay none the less... and save their > existing files in .bak.# files.
Narrrgh. Put the new files as .new - that way we don't break anything. We should only do this for $sysconfdir, too - it's the only place we can pseudo guarantee that we're replacing like with like. Cheers, -Thom -- Thom May -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even Debian developers are human.
