> On Mar 22, 2017, at 18:25, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 03/22/2017 11:36 AM, chaouche yacine wrote: >> Robert, >> >> What would be the benefit of using sed against making customized files and >> just copying them ? I'd probably just want to copy a working version of >> /etc/dovecot/ conf files instead of modifying my existing files with sed >> scripts (or create new ones with cat). > > new options are left unaltered. I learned this with postfix, to use postconf > instead of trying to replace main.cf. > > I thought about mv old confs then cat new confs, but again, there are other > things set up, and I worked at changing what needed customization, rather > than wholesale replacement.
Did you consider putting your customization in a local.conf which should be tried at the end? Could put whatever explanation in there you want. On a system like Debian this would more easily allow the default files to be upgraded without intervention. -- Rob
