On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:36 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > I'd like some sort of flag system which says to etc-update: > "I've chosen to alter this file myself before, at some point in time" > or > "I've never touched this file in my life before, in fact, I didn't > know it even existed." > > Of course, it's not a foolproof system - it wouldn't catch files that > I have indirectly altered using Webmin, for example, but it would go > some way.
chattr +i <filename> is your friend. I started doing this awhile back when etc-update decided that one of the 'trvial changes' it was going to make before asking me for input overwrote /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf on my mail server. Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
