On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 10:10, Robert Middleswarth wrote: > Reread the message he didn't say backing up the /etc was bad but that > tring to figuire out with of the hundreds of files in etc that are > import was the problem. I know been there before. The reason you always keep a backup of an old /etc is so, after re-installation, you can refer back to old config files. Dropping the old /etc over the new would be suicidal, of course, so no one does that. Speaking entirely for myself, we have Solaris boxes at work that have been upgraded half a dozen (or more) times (we even have some venerable servers that are nearing 10 years old and have been upgraded multiple times). There's a lot of cruft on those machines that is un-necessary, legacy, reflects the policies of administrators who didn't last as long as the machines, etc. A clean install might take more time than an upgrade, but it leaves your system cleaner and your sysadmins saner. At least IMHO. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
