Craig Caughlin wrote: > > Hi folks, > I've been told, as a general rule, the configuration files residing under > /etc can be modified to customize your DachsteinCD. For example, If you want > to modify your system to use some other NIC, then edit /etc/modules. My > questions are: How do I access the files (Do I access them from the command > prompt when Dachstein is up and running, or...? What command do I use to > edit them?) When I do my backup, which option(s) do I select for backup to > make sure my changes will take place on reboot? Thank you, have a great day! > > Craig
Good questions. You've brought up a slight deficiency in our packaging system, namely, "What package does this file belong to?" and "How do I configure said package?" The second part is pretty simple to answer. If you know what package you have to modify, you can usually go into lrcfg and configure it. Lrcfg is meant to be an easier interface to that config file than to edit it by hand using vi. That's all. So edit it using lrcfg or by hand. Your choice. Use lrcfg a bunch and explore the config files. That's the eaiset way to see how DF is made up. Yes you configure these files on a running DF, either using vi if you can find the files in /etc/init.d/, or using lrcfg. Vi is good to edit them or lrcfg. When you back up your changes, the idea is to back up any package that you made changes to. How do you know which package you changed? Well if you use lrcfg, it's divided into packages, so you tell fairly easily if you remember how you got into a file. If you found a config file and edited it without having any idea where it came from, then that can be tricky. If you really have to, then look into all the *.list files in /var/lib/lrpkg/. Those list the files that are in each package. When backing up a package, its package.list file is parsed and those files and directories are backed up while excluding the dirs and files listed in the other .list files. Complicated, yes :) Matthew _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
