On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:50, Phil Mattison wrote:

> I've found an easy way to restore Linux after a reinstall is to make a
> little shell script that concatenates all the config files I've modified
> into a single file with a file-name at the start of each section, and keep
> in on another machine. Then after the raw install I can login via Telnet/SSH
> (from a Windows box) and just cut/paste each of the config files as needed.
> I had Samba going within 10 minutes that way. After that a lot of the work
> restoring my development web server is drag&drop.
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I can't say that this is always such a good strategy but I can see why
the temptation is there.

With each update of each 'daemon', comes more and different
configuration options. I have also found that things don't always work
like I would expect them to and of course, there is the benefit of
re-doing configurations that takes newly learned administration skills
through the process of re-thinking the setup.

For example, the following daemons have drastically changed from Fedora
1 and Fedora 2

dhcp
sendmail
samba
sshd

What I have done is to set up a system as a 'server' upon which I store
all my files/email etc. and make my desktop system more or less
disposable so I can repurpose or update, without much concern.

Craig

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