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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Richard, |
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> Thanks for the response. I would have NEVER guessed that this qfile |
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> command was telling me the files that are no longer needed. I should |
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> have read the man page on that. |
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Well, strictly speaking it points out files that are not owned by any |
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installed package. Normally when a file is no longer needed it gets |
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deleted, but the config protect feature prevents this in /etc. |
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> Now, was the intent of this Wiki to tell me what didn't need |
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> editing or what did? Seems very strange to me to point out files I |
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> don't need anymore but leave the impression I do. |
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Hmm - not sure what wiki you're referring to, but the upgrade guide is |
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at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml |
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The text around "qfile -o /etc/pam.d/*" is: |
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Because of the nature of configuration files, you might still have old |
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configuration files for packages you already removed, so you should |
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check first that there are no orphan files (files not belonging to any |
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package), for instance through the qfile command present in |
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app-portage/portage-utils. |
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and |
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The most common presence of orphan files in /etc/pam.d are the backup |
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files created by most editors, ending with a tilde character (~). The |
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remaining files, unless you created them yourself for your particular |
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setup, should be safe to remove (or at least move away), as they are |
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probably leftovers from previously installed packages. A special |
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exception for this is /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd for vmware-server, that is |
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created by the vmware-config.pl script (but it should be safe to remove |
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unless you edited it manually, you'll just have to re-execute the script). |
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Even so, I'll be the first to stand up and proclaim that PAM is confusing. |
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> Anyway, the machine is working and I apprecaite your help. |
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You're very welcome! |
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Rich |
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