[hobbit] Config files overwritten?

[Jeffcoat, Al]

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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