On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Ken Moffat wrote:
OK. What sort of things do you change in /etc ? For me, mostly
building desktops (with shared /home), the idea of having to tweak
files in /etc to get it working properly is uncommon.
For me, mostly maintaining kind of servers, pretty sure the majority of
configuration tasks is within /etc: add sites/domains to apache, modify
recipient_bccs or transports for postfix, add ssl certificates, add/modify
users/groups/aliasses, tweak system-wide spamassassin rules, add devices
to fstab, stuff like that.
In an ideal world you may only have to change such things once - when you
setup the system, e.g. setting up a hostname. But demands tend to
change...
And its a quite convenient to be able to say: well, something is not
working the way it should (now) with lets say apache, OK, lets take a
look at /etc/apache/*. And I appreciate _only_ finding stuff there, that
I might potentially want to change.
Regards,
Uwe
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