On 07-12-2011 12:59, SebA wrote:
On the latest trunk, a make install overwrites xymon-apache.conf without
either merging in my additions to it, or making a backup of the existing
file. This resulted in me losing the additions that I made to it on
Monday. Rather annoying.
Indeed. I've changed the installation so it will not overwrite an
existing file.
As a small aside, another untidyness is that the make install process
seems to be creating backup copies of files that have NOT changed since
the last install:
[etc]# ls -l | grep "Dec 7"
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 3374 Dec 7 11:21 cgioptions.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 3374 Dec 7 11:21 cgioptions.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 4193 Dec 7 11:21 client-local.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 4193 Dec 7 11:21 client-local.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 11524 Dec 7 11:21 columndoc.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 11524 Dec 7 11:21 columndoc.csv.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 0 Dec 7 11:22 cookies.session
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit apache 0 Dec 7 11:21 critical.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit apache 0 Dec 7 11:21 critical.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 74994 Dec 7 11:21 graphs.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 74994 Dec 7 11:21 graphs.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 4674 Dec 7 11:21 protocols.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 4674 Dec 7 11:21 protocols.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 11118 Dec 7 11:21 tasks.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 11118 Dec 7 11:21 tasks.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 4615 Dec 7 11:17 xymon-apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 12784 Dec 7 11:21 xymonserver.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 12784 Dec 7 11:21 xymonserver.cfg.bak
I believe all of these bak files are the same as the originals.
Probably, if you didn't change the Xymon build configuration.
Presumably the previous bak files were lost during this process, which
is potentially rather annoying too!
Saving a backup file has to be your own responsibility. The Xymon
installer should take care to save the current config-files before
writing new ones, and that it what it does - it doesn't do version
control of your setup.
Regards,
Henrik