Package: psad Version: 2.0.4-1 Severity: normal I'm not exactly reporting a "bug", but rather an annoyance in the "user experience" so to speak.
I've made changes to /etc/psad/psad.conf to set the machine name and my dshield userid but everytime the package is upgraded, a new version is installed on top of it and I have to make these same changes again. Of course, I could say "No, keep my own version of the config file" but typically that doesn't work and psad refuses to start because some values (for newly added options) are not set. What I would recommend (feel free to forward this to the upstream author if you think it makes sense) is to have two config files: /etc/psad.conf: for default distribution configuration /etc/psad.conf.local: for local changes (such as setting the hostname) The "local" version would be empty by default but it would take precedence over the default one and override any settings defined in both. So this would allow seemless upgrades because the local file would not be upgraded but the other would. The only time users would need to edit the config file after an upgrade is if they want to take advantage of a new option. As an added benefit, psad would no longer be succeptible to breakage after each package upgrade and could be upgraded in an unattended way. Francois -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages psad depends on: ii ipchains 1.3.10-16 Network firewalling for Linux 2.2. ii iptables 1.3.6.0debian1-5 administration tools for packet fi ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcarp-clan-perl 5.8-1 Perl enhancement to Carp error log ii libdate-calc-perl 5.4-5 Perl library for accessing dates ii libnetwork-ipv4addr-per 0.10-1.1 The Net::IPv4Addr perl module API ii libunix-syslog-perl 0.100-5 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog( ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii sysklogd [syslogd] 1.4.1-20 System Logging Daemon ii whois 4.7.20 the GNU whois client Versions of packages psad recommends: ii bastille 1:2.1.1-13 Security hardening tool -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
