Re: script for on-disk configuration file backup
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:28:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > After running this for a few months, I've discovered that some
> > packages make their own backup copies of config files. Setserial, for
> > example backs up /etc/serial.conf to /etc/.serial.conf.old. I've
> > put exceptions in to ignore the ones I've found. The script
> > also ignores the cache files ld.so.cache, mtab, and adjtime.
>
> IMO, setserial should be changed to use /var/backups, since that is the
> FHS-blessed place for such things, and it tends to have more space available
> than /etc. Regardless of the actual location, it is a very good idea for all
> packages to do their config file backups in the same way, so that the admin
> will always know where to find the backups.
After examining the situation, it seems that this particular backup is created
by /etc/init.d/setserial, which runs before /etc/init.d/mountall.sh, so I guess
this one has to stay in /etc.
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- mdz
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