Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2575 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-02-11 at 03:29 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> > > But this YaST part is one of the most unfriendly ever... and ever was,
> > > so if you happen to use the ncurse version and though use console
> > > input, why don't you change directly the /etc/sysconfig/apache2 file?
> > > it's not more difficult
>
> > I was avoiding manually editing the file because IIRC a manually
> > edited file
> > takes that file out from under SuSEConfig's control. I don't have a
> > list of all
> > the files it applies to, but I do recall it being an issue [God knows
> > how long
> > ago].
>
> No, it doesn't break.
>
> You can edit, manually, any value in any file under "/etc/sysconfig/",
> and then apply the changes using "SuSEconfig". It works. If the next
> time you use YaST, it will also work - and if it doesn't, it is a bug.
>
> What it breaks is, for instance, if you edit the "/etc/postfix" files
> instead of "/etc/sysconfig/postfix". From that point SuSEconfig will
> notice the manual change and refuse to apply its own changes.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

Thanks Carlos,

        That was the issue. SuSEConfig must be really P.O.'ed with me then, 
because I
edit just about everything in /etc manually :-D

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