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
