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From: "Morrison, John" <John DOT Morrison AT uk DOT experian DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: defaults
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:56:03 -0000 
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Hi all.

This has been at the back of my mind for awhile now since having to
do something for /etc/profile.default.

What I'm thinking of is a directory structure containing default files
and a script which, if the original of the default file doesn't exist,
copies it.  I'm specifically thinking of:

/etc/apache.new/access.conf.default
/etc/apache.new/httpd.conf.default
/etc/apache.new/magic.default
/etc/apache.new/mime.types.default
/etc/apache.new/srm.conf.default
/etc/bash.bashrc.default
/etc/enscript.cfg.default
/etc/exim.conf.default
/etc/mime.conf.default
/etc/profile.default
/etc/skel/[initial user files here]
/etc/squid.conf.default

I think creating...

/etc/defaults/etc/apache/access.conf
/etc/defaults/etc/apache/httpd.conf
/etc/defaults/etc/apache/magic
/etc/defaults/etc/apache/mime.types
/etc/defaults/etc/apache/srm.conf
/etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/defaults/etc/enscript.cfg
/etc/defaults/etc/exim.conf
/etc/defaults/etc/mime.conf
/etc/defaults/etc/profile
/etc/defaults/etc/skel/[initial user files here]
/etc/defaults/etc/squid.conf

and the script...

================================================================

#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/defaults
for f in `find . -type f`; do
	fDest = `echo $f | sed 's/^\.//g'`
	echo $f $fDest
	if [ ! -f $fDest ]; then
		echo Using the default version of $fDest
		cp $f $fDest
	else
		echo $fDest is already in existance, not overwriting.
	fi
done

================================================================

There are however, a few problems which need to be overcome.

The first is that this script, although best as a postinstall,
would have be executed _after every install_.

The other would be to get people to use it ;)

Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!).  Any comments?
would it be worth doing?

J.

--LongSig

It's so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the
Devil when he is the only explanation of it.


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