A few swat comments. was:Re: [Samba] Does the SWAT tool come with the Red Hat 8.0 distribution?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:56, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, mark wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:06:41 +0000 (GMT)
> > John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I like this suggestion. Could you specify your dream wishes more
> > > clearly please.
> > >
> > > ie: I run SWAT and write the back-up file. Now I run it again and
> > > overwrite the backup file again? Where is the gain then? Do I only
> > > back it up if it does not exist? Then what about subsequent changes I
> > > make? Should it back it up to a file with time and date extensions? If
> > > so, homw many backups should I keep?
> > >
> > > Your suggestion perplexees me. I want some consensus on this before I
> > > change anything here.
> >
> > Consensus?  Dude!  You are a powerful overlord with cvs access!  You
> > don't need no stinking consensus!
> 
> The biggest challenge of all is to have power and then use it only
> sparingly!

:-)  But that spoils all the fun!

> > You are right about the difficulty of figuring out how many times to
> > back up a smb.conf file.  In the few minutes I've though about it, I
> > came up with the idea of having swat itself write a few extra bytes at
> > the top of the file along the lines of "#Swat generated".  or
> > #0xaed9883344c2a2.  Something to indicate that this file should not be
> > backed up.  Really what I would like is if I have a smb.conf file that
> > I've hand edited I would like for smb.conf to back that file up.  So if
> > a smb.conf file didn't have the above mentioned few bytes it would be
> > backed up.
> 
> If you provide patches I'll do my best to integrate them. :) Other than
> that, I'll take your comments on advice and will do something next time I
> make a change.
> 
> Anyone else have any suggestions or wishes here?

Well, putting an MD5 sum at the top (or bottom) of the file would not be
that hard - and could be quite useful...

> > Maybe just a warning along the lines of  "about to overwrite your
> > smb.conf, would you like to save your original?"
> 
> Ok. I'll implement that one.

Or what about just calling RCS on the file?

Andrew Bartlett

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