Configuration Files (Feature Request / Question) 🔗 link

Hello -

It is my understanding that the configuration files located in
$HOBBITROOT/etc are not overwritten during an upgrade.  Where would I find
the configuration files that would have been installed had this been a new
installation?   (A few of the admins are looking for them...)

Any chance that the installer can be modified to save the default
configuration files to $HOBBITROOT/etc/DIST (or some other directory) in the
event of an upgrade installation?

Thanks -

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--==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

hmm, RPM built with the spec bundled actually does
1) overwrite some, saving original ones to   blah.cfg.rpmsave
2) leave some alone, saving the new config to blah.cfg.rpmorig

So, I'd think the 'problem' and/or solution is/should-be specific to the
distro and ways of installation (compile/make/install, or standard packaging
like pkg/rpm/deb, etc.)

On 8/8/06, Bob Gordon <user-488dbf322a4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:06:54AM -0700, Bob Gordon wrote:

If you use one of the package managers (probably Linux specific - but 
then either RPM or Debian's dpkg), then it's up to the package manager
to decide what files get overwritten, updated or just left alone.

If you just compile Hobbit from source and do a "make install", it will
attempt to merge your current configuration with any new settings. This
applies to hobbitserver.cfg, hobbitlaunch.cfg, hobbitcgi.cfg and
hobbitgraph.cfg. The webserver templates - *_header, *_footer, *_form -
are updated if you haven't modified them yourself.

In the hobbitd/etcfiles/ directory after "make" completes.

You're free to copy them over. Personally I keep my Hobbit config-files
checked into a revision-control system (just plain rcs) - that lets me
keep check on what changes have been made, and why.


Regards,
Henrik