Upgrading conf file

[Michael Janssen]

Hello ,

i've tested this script with 3.13 to 3.23 and it works fine only telling
me:

The following parameters from your old config are defunct:

Sendmail2 = /usr/exim/bin/exim -C /usr/exim/exim_out.conf
Run As Group = mhs
Run As User = pp
Viruses To Quietly Delete = /backup/exim/MailScanner/etc/viruses.to.delete.conf

This happens, when the config-option is out-commented in new config-file.
Is it possible to recognize those pre-out-commented options by the missing
space after "#"-sign? (Without messing up options, wich have both pre-out
and default values - that's the problem)

nevertheless, nice script, usefull. Thank you for contribute it.

Michael

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Patterson S.R. wrote:

> Find attached a quick perl script which (I think!) works the way you might
> want.
>
> I've done some testing and it looks ok to me, but you might want to try it
> out on a few subtley different config files before trusting it.
>
> Don't even mention the state of my perl. ;)
>
> Cheers, Steve
> --
> Steven Patterson MSci OCP.  Tel: +44 (0)2380 595810
> Primary Information Services Support and Development
> Information Systems Services, University of Southampton, UK.
> Public PGP Key: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~srp/pubkey.asc
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Sent: 08 October 2002 17:52
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Upgrading conf file
> >
> >
> > It's generally acknowledged by everyone that copying over all your old
> > settings into a new mailscanner.conf file is a pain to do.
> > The alternative
> > is that you have to accept that you will be using my default
> > values for any
> > new configuration options.
> >
> > So, does someone fancy writing a script to automate it?
> >
> > The spec goes something like this:
> >
> > Run through the old config file, remembering all the settings.
> > Then run through the new one, over-writing the setting for
> > every variable
> > that is in the new file too.
> > If there are any old variables left over at the end, they must have
> > disappeared from the config file format, so tell the user
> > they have gone.
> > Also worth telling the user what the new variables were (i.e.
> > the ones it
> > couldn't find previous values for).
> >
> > Any volunteers?
> > Anyone care to volunteer one of their students?
> > It could even be set as a coursework assignment for a systems admin or
> > programming course of some sort.
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >
>