On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 09:08 PM, Marc Singer wrote:
Without a single example, I don't see how installing a configuration file where there is none can have *any* affect on the system. Admittedly, replacing a configuration file may be undesirable.
In addition to the example of configuration files that change compiled in defaults that has already been mentioned consider things like logcheck or apache2 which scan a directory processing all files within it.