From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 16:12:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B42316A41C for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0589643D4C for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:31 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EAC58C7; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75225-02; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA32158C6; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D449156BB; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Jaroslav Kucher In-Reply-To: <1576196089.20050630115129@blues.kiev.ua> Message-ID: <20050630091104.N75408@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <1576196089.20050630115129@blues.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended behaviour for "example" configuration files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:32 -0000 > Kindly advice what is recommended actions for the "example" > configuration files after the port application install. > > From the point of package database the removing or moving those files > will cause database inconsistency. > > From the point of administrator to have a lot of useless files in > configuration directories is unwanted . > > Example: after installations of amavis-new port there was 3 sample > files in /usr/local/etc/ directory: > > *amavisd.conf-default > *amavisd.conf-dist > *amavisd.conf-sample I tend to leave them there unless it's an application I'm really familiar with as I find the samples tend to have pretty good comments and I might want to go back and look at them. I agree though, they do get in the way at times, but when I have removed them, I don't remember pkg_delete every complaining about it... maybe a warning that it couldn't find the file (which might be a problem if you for other pkg_* commands)... -philip