dpkg and config files

[Brad Tilley <bradtilley@usa.net>]

Hello,

New to Debian, but old to Unix/Linux. 

Having a small problem instructing Debian not to update config files that I
want to control myself. For example, I have a remote Debian syslog server and
I've edited its /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd file to our own specific log
rotation scheme and now, I need to instruct Debian to *never* touch this file
while doing updates, but I don't understand how to do this. Could someone
point me to information that describes how to do this?

Thank you,

Brad