Question:
Brand spanking new install of 5.6. I went to one of the mirrors provided by a link from the e-smith.org site to obtain the latest updates and saved them to my local hard disk on my windows laptop. I then fired up the web browser, pointed it to
http://newserver/server-manager and then turned on ssh access, so that I could get into it via putty / winscp. Saved the settings, putty'd in to ensure it works (did), then logged out. Fire up winscp, upload all of the updates - log out. Go back in via putty again and install the updates like so (screen capture):
[root@gateway Updates]# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:e-smith-mailfront ########################################### [ 4%]
2:flexbackup ########################################### [ 8%]
3:initscripts ########################################### [ 12%]
4:nut-client ########################################### [ 16%]
5:nut ########################################### [ 20%]
6:e-smith-nutUPS ########################################### [ 24%]
7:openssh ########################################### [ 28%]
8:openssh-clients ########################################### [ 32%]
9:openssh-server warning: /etc/ssh/sshd_config created as /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew
########################################### [ 36%]
10:e-smith-openssh ########################################### [ 40%]
11:ppp ########################################### [ 44%]
12:pptpd ########################################### [ 48%]
13:proftpd warning: /etc/proftpd.conf created as /etc/proftpd.conf.rpmnew
########################################### [ 52%]
14:samba-common warning: /etc/samba/smb.conf created as /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew
########################################### [ 56%]
15:samba ########################################### [ 60%]
16:samba-client ########################################### [ 64%]
17:trendVirusWall ########################################### [ 68%]
18:xinetd ########################################### [ 72%]
19:e-smith-base ########################################### [ 76%]
20:e-smith-backup ########################################### [ 80%]
21:e-smith-hosts ########################################### [ 84%]
22:e-smith-ipmasq ########################################### [ 88%]
23:e-smith-locale-fr_CA ########################################### [ 92%]
24:e-smith-proftpd ########################################### [ 96%]
25:e-smith-wu-imap ########################################### [100%]
[root@gateway Updates]#
Now... probably not a big deal, but I would just like to know so that I understand. What are the 'warning:' msg's about? I can sorta understand the sshd one being issued because I had changed that from the default (ssh = off) - I turned it on. Whats w/the samba and proftp ones though. I didn't do anything with either of those. Warning msgs aside though - what exactly do they imply? Is it to say that the update thought that I had changed or modified the *.conf files in some way, so therefore it ~didn't~ overwrite them? The installer auto-creates the *.rpmnew file when it runs into an existing .conf file - yes? What if the new/updated patch contains some sort of directives that are required as part of the patch (say, some security or functional piece?) Am I/we supposed to go through the .rpmnew file and compare it with the existing .conf and figure out what should be added or removed? Again - just looking to understand with some clarity what the *.rmpnew files are and thier (if any) implications.
Thanks guys!
-=- jd -=-
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