Patrick Shanahan wrote:
my sudo.conf has been edited, and exists in /etc but there is no rpmnew copy, on six boxes.
You're misunderstanding something Patrick. We're talking about the /etc/sudoers file exactly, which is provided by the distro. Now, sudo.conf, under /etc, will only be there if the user/admin creates it, OK? If you go to the sudo spec file (as well as any other package that's still placing config file under /etc), you can see something similar to:
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/foo
that gets expanded to:
/etc/foo
And if the user edits /etc/foo, that "noreplace" will shield the file so that new versions (which changes the content of the file) don't replace whatever the user edited. A /etc/foo.rpmnew will be created with the new content of /etc/foo instead.