Russell Coker wrote: > OK. So you install a file and then customise it to the user. IMHO > customising the file on first install does not count as "editing a conf file" > as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config.
In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy. Anyway. > Probably the best solution is to create some system whereby multiple files > are used. A basic example is a daemon start script which does: > echo "# Auto generated file do not edit" > /etc/flipit/flipit.conf > cat /etc/flipit/conf.d/* >> /etc/flipit/flipit.conf Please don't put "automatically generated, do not edit" type files in /etc. They belong in /var/. -- see shy jo