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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 18:30:24 +0200, Neil Rickert wrote:
On 9/11/20 7:35 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Is anybody brave enough to delete the file (or rename it) and see if anything breaks?
It doesn't take much bravery. But it would only prove that the file is not used by anything that I am doing.
I checked out files in "/etc/sysconfig" using:
cd /etc/sysconfig for file in * do rpm --query --file $file && echo FILE=$file done
It turns out that most files there are not owned by any package. But some of them are surely used.
I've reported this as bug 1176457 which I set as an enhancement request to fix the problem. Somebody needs to clean out the accumulated cobwebs.
All files in /etc/sysconfig come from /usr/share/fillup-templates/ with a "sysconfig." prefix (on older systems it was /var/adm/fillup-templates/) and they are generated during installation of their packages. So you could find out where those files belong to by running "rpm -qf /usr/share/fillup-templates/sysconfig.*". BTW, there is no "sysconfig.clock" in /usr/share/fillup-templates/ anymore, so it really is a zombie from older installations. Interestingly I installed my 15.2 system freshly during its Beta phase, so it's surprising that the /etc/sysconfig/clock file is still around... Cheers. l8er manfred