[hobbit] Config files overwritten?

[Henrik Stoerner]

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