Why FC-2?
Viktor Chupryna
viktor at aldebaran.phys.utk.edu
Wed Mar 10 14:58:27 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:48, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > also, you pretty much have to reconfigure everything from scratch, but if
> > you backed up /etc/somewhere, that's generally not too painful and
> > probably a good exercise, anyway, just to refresh your memory.
>
> As a matter of interest, what do you do after backing up your old /etc ?
> Do you just over-write the new /etc ?
Not necessarily. You should pick and choose what configuration files you want
to keep from the old /etc. For example, if you've already customized your old
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, you may want that back, or /etc/passwd,
/etc/shadow, /etc/groups if you want to keep your old users passwords and
groups the same.
The rest you probably don't necessary want to mess around with, and just leave
it at that, cause /etc also contains some init scripts that might change from
version to version.
-Viktor
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