[gentoo-user] Re: transferring contents of /etc/conf.d to the config files

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 10/10/2011 10:13 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  [11-10-10 20:56]:
>> On 10/10/2011 09:45 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>>> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>   [11-10-10 19:52]:
>>>> On 10/10/2011 08:33 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>>>>> I have read several docs to figure out this...all docs do changes
>>>>> in /etc/conf.d but I found no hint how to transfer that settings
>>>>> to the "real" configuration files of the according programs.
>>>>
>>>> These *are* real configuration files and you don't need to transfer
>>>> anything.
>>>
>>> The reason I thought, that those settings in /etc/conf.d is due
>>> to a warning of the rkhunter tool:
>>> [...]
>>> Now I see, that it seems to check simply the wrong file.
>>
>> It's checking the correct file.  Simply edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to
>> your liking.  /etc/conf.d/ is not for those kind of settings; it's
>> read-in by Gentoo's init system and other infrastructure.
>
> Now I am a little more confused...
>
> What is the purpose of this file?  :
>
>      /etc/conf.d/sshd

It's used by Gentoo's init system, not by ssh.


> if /etc/ssh/sshd_config is for configuration of sshd's options...for
> what purpose is /etc/conf.d/sshd then ?
>
> And what files gets overwritten when installing a new version of sshd?

All files are overwritten.  In case of differences, emerge will tell you 
about it at the end of the emerge (even if you emerged multiple 
packages, the notification will only appear at the end of all of them.)

Configuration protection is a basic feature of portage.  When emerge 
tells you that the newly installed configuration files differ from the 
existing ones, it means that you need to run 'dispatch-conf' (or another 
equivalent tool) that will show you what those differences are and will 
allow you to merge them.  Until you do that, the new config files will 
keep their temporary names ("._cfg" prefix).