Gavin Chester wrote:
I saw someone on a forum recommend that you keep your suse system configuration files informed and updated of the changes to your packages by executing these two commands as superuser AFTER doing your smart install or upgrade: # SuSEconfig and then #ldconfig NOTE: the upper/lower case syntax.
Reverse the order.
I've done a lot of smart updates to suse without this additional operation and there appears to be no harm from NOT doing it. However, yast performs that system config update every time you change a configuration file so my question is whether that operation is something unique to suse and should I do it as advised to keep my system running in peak health?
SuSEconfig is unique to SUSE. ldconfig updates the shared library cache, needed when you update a library. These days, there is a move to include the ldconfig command inside the rpm as a post install script, so that may not explicitly be needed in general, but it is not harmful. If it is not needed it returns quickly to the prompt. There is also moves to include running of the specific SuSEconfig module inside the rpms as a post install script. So, bottom line is, it may not always be necessary, but it never hurts. I would highly recommend it if you do not use Yast to do your updating. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org