On Sunday 07 January 2001 05:20, Tibor D. wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > On Saturday 06 January 2001 21:19, Tibor D. wrote: > >> Could you imagin squid.conf without any comments and example-lines? The > > > > Incidentally I have recently submitted a proposal for debconf'ing Squid. > > I've forward it to debian-user a few minutes ago. > > As I mentioned above, I'd really like to have a fast way to setup squid > or lilo (with some menu-system), but I'd like to have the possibility to > update the original conffiles by hand (and to know that these lines > won't just disappear when installing an update). > Today I had to update /etc/inetd.conf and to activate swat (its for > samba) and there I saw already the line: #<off># swat ....... > There I found that these lines can be changed by the "update-inetd"-tool. > I think something like that would be cool, so one can insert own lines, > but some tool can also handle those labeled-lines (and only those). So > the config-files remain transparent. > I think it's not the idea of debconf, to really have all possible > variables of lilo.conf/squid.conf changed, but only the "most wanted" > for a fast setup.
In the next version there is a debconf option for whether you want to overwrite an existing lilo.conf file with a generated file. Also I have added a "-f" option to liloconfig to force the creation of a new file, so you could create a new file when you want with "liloconfig -f", also I've made liloconfig take a parameter of the file to create, so you could do "liloconfig /tmp/lilo.conf" to see what it suggests (and then do what you like with the output). -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
