Re: make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, 2. February 2005 19:18, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Another solution could be using default files (/etc/defaults/services)
> :and add overrides/custom entries in /etc/services.
> :
> :Too bad that I have no idea how we could do this, since -alot- of tcp/ip
> :tools use /etc/services directly. Any way to wrap this?
> :
> :- Erik
>
>     No tools should be using /etc/services directly.  They should all be
>     using e.g. getservbyname() and friends.
>
>     Pesonally speaking I really like the idea of having /etc/services
>     and /etc/defaults/services.

for legacy reasons (scripts etc) better make it /etc/services 
and /etc/services.local. or just make it plain simple:

/etc/default/services
/etc/services.local

both get merged into /etc/services by /etc/rc.d/services or whatever

cheers
  simon

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