On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I have MySQL 4.1 running in Sarge. The other day I did a security > upgrade on MySQL and it overwrote the server's my.cnf. The only > change it made was to the basedir, but that was a huge change since the > server was trying to use a non-existent database. After a little > checking I discovered the problem and fixed it. > > Is there a way to prevent an upgrade from overwriting my config files? > Or do I just have to be aware of the problem and check for it? >
File a bug. A package upgrade should *never* silently overwrite your configuration. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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