Good to know, thanks Henrik...
In the past I had just copied the server directory out of the way, and then make install, and copy my config files back into place...
Also, I have a questions about external scripts. I have written an external script to monitor HACMP on AIX, is there a repository for scripts besides deadcat? Not sure if this script would work with BB anyway.
Al
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Config files overwritten?
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:12:54AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
What happens to any configuration files that have been changed in the $HOBBIT/server/etc directory if I do a make install to the same location? Are they overwritten, or reused?
I'm wanting to do an update to the RC1 from a previous snapshot, and
am
curious if it will be that easy :)
"make install" does its best to do "the right thing". It won't touch your bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts.cfg, hobbit-clients.cfg files; if tries to merge in added settings to the hobbitserver.cfg, hobbitcgi.cfg, hobbitgraph.cfg, hobbitlaunch.cfg and columndoc.csv files; and it only updates your web/* templates and the www/menu/* files if they haven't been modified since Hobbit was installed.
In other words - as the cautious admin you are, you will of course make a rapid backup - tar cf /tmp/config.tar ~hobbit/server/etc - before running make install, but it really should just work :-)
Henrik
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