Re: to conffile or not to conffile

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Russell Coker wrote:
> OK.  So you install a file and then customise it to the user.  IMHO 
> customising the file on first install does not count as "editing a conf file" 
> as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config.

In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy. Anyway.

> Probably the best solution is to create some system whereby multiple files 
> are used.  A basic example is a daemon start script which does:
> echo "# Auto generated file do not edit" > /etc/flipit/flipit.conf
> cat /etc/flipit/conf.d/* >> /etc/flipit/flipit.conf

Please don't put "automatically generated, do not edit" type files in
/etc. They belong in /var/.

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see shy jo