After upgrading to ver 8.1, I have several files mostly in /etc which end in .rpmsave and .rpmnew. While booting a message, "searching for unresolved configuration files" displays a list of these files and says see /var/adm/configcheck.the contents of the text fileconfigcheck are: /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmnew /etc/aliases.rpmnew /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/isdn.rpmsave /etc/init.d/ldap.rpmsave /etc/init.d/xntpd.rpmsave /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/isdn/isdn.conf.rpmnew /etc/mail/submit.cf.rpmnew /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmorig /etc/sendmail.cf.rpmnew /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave My system is running well for about three weeks now. My question is, can I just delete these files. I suspect they are backup files no longer needed.
On Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:52, Rodney Wishart wrote:
After upgrading to ver 8.1, I have several files mostly in /etc which end in .rpmsave and .rpmnew. . . My question is, can I just delete these files. I suspect they are backup files no longer needed.
Just yesterday, I went through a similar situation. You have to be careful with which is which. *Usually*, .rpmsave is the "old" file, and if everything has worked fine for sometime, you don't need the file. *Usually*, .rpmnew is the file created by rpm, to supplant the old file. What I do is, first, delete the original file (or, if unsure, rename it <oldfile>.orig), then rename the .rpmnew to the file of same name without the ".rpmnew" extension. -- Regards, gr (in /usually/ balmy, sunny Florida's Suncoast) [powered by SuSE-7.3 Linux 2.4.10]
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