Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Dansguardian

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > Looking at the disk usage on /etc now, I see two other large directories
> > that have potential for moving their /etc files to /config/*.tar.gz.
> > One is snort.  The other is 'l7-protocols' ... no idea what it is ...
> 
> (OSI model) Layer 7 (=application layer) protocol descriptions

Yeah, I guessed that much.  :-)

What I meant was I have no idea what uses it, or what bad things will
happen if it's not there.

> > I see l7-protocols is created in patch-o-matic, but I'm not sure what
> > package(s) use it.  Is it something that can be moved too?  It's
> > currently the largest subdirectory under /etc (about 1MB).
> 
> I guess it's used by iptables or some other support tool. I have to admit I did 
> never use it before. I usually delete those subdirectories which I don't need.

I also guessed that it might be used by some iptables module that does
l7 filtering.

It's be good to know for sure what uses it to make sure we don't break
something (like our stock firewall scripts) before we move it.

> I personally would like to see the following subdirectories of /etc/ moved to 
> /config/etc-PACKAGE.tar.bz2 or so:
>   * apache2
>   * curl
>   * apcupsd
>   * awstats
>   * eagle-usb
>   * ha.d
>   * joe/{syntax,doc} (317k)
>   * l7-protocols (993k)
>   * lpd
>   * mgetty+sendfax
>   * openldap (224k)
>   * pcmcia (225k)
>   * postfix (241k)
>   * ppp
>   * raddb (305k)
>   * sarg (101k)
>   * shorewall (197k)
>   * snort (689k)
>   * socks
>   * ups
>   * wlan
>   * zebra
> 
> Total of the above is 4.3 MB of 7.0 MB for the whole etc.tar.bz2. So on a very 
> basic system my config would shrink by more than 50% compared to now.

Sounds good to me.

One other thought...  We also need to modify the upgrade script (to a
new DL version) so updates to files in those optional directories will
also get applied.  I think that can be done without too much hassle.

 - BS