- problem resolution - i.e. what's non-standard about a particular system.
- review and justification of each delta.
- security - compare two config deltas for unexpected changes.
- clean up.
Since apt-get/dpkg (a) knows about the .conf files (b) knows the default .conf. (c) "upgrade" detects deltas and queries what to do about the situation I thought there might be some way to report the set of deltas.
The files in /etc fall into for categories 1. default .conf files from installed .debs. 2. non-default .conf files from installed .debs 3. old .conf files from removed .debs; failed installations, etc. 4. other files; typically user installed.
My configuration has ~1500 files in /etc and its subdirs and ~1100 .conf files listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. I'd like to sort things out and clean up some of the cruft.
--rich
Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Rich Johnson wrote:
Hi folks--
...
Is there a way to list the _non-default_, or modified, .conf files required to transferd/or restore a configuration?
Files like:
- krb5.conf;
- httpd.conf
- timezone
- cron.d files
- bind files
I already maintain the list of packages (dpkg --get-selections) but that only yields a default configuration.
i put "all" conf files in /etc not in /var/* etc.etc..
and backup of "the server's conf" ( /etc ) fits on a floppy
c ya alvin
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