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Mark Knecht wrote: | Hi, | Trying to do this right. After updating portage, I have a message about 4 | files that need to be updated. They all start with /etc/._conf. | | It appears that the proper way to do this update is to save the existing | config files, rename these 4 files to their respective names, and then hand | edit back in any settings I had made to the earlier files. | | Is this correct? | | Thanks, | Mark | Careful though when using etc-update, after you make changes to files in /etc/ some of the time it will overwrite configuration files you spent hours working on, this is one of the reasons why it's very, very, very, very, very, very important that you make backups to /etc/ especially before upgrading things like your http or mail server. You can always check the difference between the old file and the new by typing:
#diff /etc/._conf.file.config /etc/file.config
you will get the diffences between the files, and a lot of the time the diffences will only be a header, comments, or maybe a new option in the file that you may not need. in that case I just do:
rm /etc/._*
Tab completion helps a lot when determinining what files need to be updated.
diff /etc/._[tab] file.conf
also running etc-update without making changes will tell you what sub directories your file changes will occur. Your ._* files are in the directories where the old file is. For example if you update apache you will probably be prompted to overwrite, /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and /etc/apache/conf/commonapache.conf If you've spent as much time configuring Apache as I have you definately don't want to loose these files, and you probably don't need to change your config files unless your updating from apache to apache2, in which case a new directory is created in /etc/apache2.
I hope this helps and I didn't confuse you. Summary, just be careful running etc-update after making significant system changes, and always backup. - -- - - William F. Pearson, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.techwill.net gpg key http://www.techwill.net/files/wfp3.gpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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