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Re: script for on-disk configuration file backup



On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman 
> 
> | > Asking because I'm adopting cfengine, and it includes /var/backups and
> | > lintian flags that as an error.
> | 
> | What does it use it for, out of curiosity?  I thought cfengine made all its
> | backups to the repository (usually /var/spool/cfengine).
> 
> I'm not sure yet.  It's not referenced in the source, and since I'm
> adopting the package, I don't know it too well yet.
> 
> I am Cc-ing Ben Collins, who might have the answer, as he is the previous
> maintainer.

The package was setup this way when I took it over. It would take some
effort to migrate easily. It really has nothing to do with the proper
cfengine program, but is something used by the cron scripts in the
Debian package (IIRC).

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