William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:45 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote: > >> William L. Maltby wrote: >> >>> After you do your update, done forget to do updatedb, makewhatis, ... >>> <snip> >>> > > >> Hi William, >> >> I'm good for the updatedb but would you mind going into the others i.e >> makewhatis and ....? >> > > Makewhatis builds the database for the keywords used by "man -k" (*not* > "man -K"), apropos and whatis commands. > > >> What do people do after running yum and updating their servers? >> > > Servers? Others should answer that. But what I've picked up from the > project folks is that when certain files (usually config files) are > updated, the new file may *not* be installed and will be left on the > system as *.rpmnew. If they *are* installed, the previous file will be > available as *.rpmsave. > > I always examine both of these and the new installed file, if any, and > make sure localizations are carried forward. E.g. enabling sendmail to > hear the network instead of just localhost by changing the sendmail.cf > file (I think that's the one that then generates the .mc file). > > My Xorg config changes is another example. Changes to force DRI, allow > me to quickly switch between 6 screen resolutions with > > <CTL><ALT><+|-> > > to support my tired old eyes better. > > >> <snip sig stuff> >> > > HTH > --- > Bill > > > Thanks Bill. That helps a lot. Ed