On 21-Aug-02, 14:42 (CDT), Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:32:00PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > How could it be dangerous to install a *missing* configuration file?
>
> If the default configuration data in the file do something you don't want.
>
To be, perhaps, a little more explicit: there are programs for which
the existence of an empty configuration file means something completely
different than a missing a configuration file[1]. Thus, for dpkg
conffile handling, removing a configuration file is a legitimate "edit".
Steve
[1] E.g. /etc/cron.allow (crontab(1)).
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Steve Greenland
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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