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On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:05:56PM +0100, Sangohn Christian wrote: > Hello al! > > I need the program codaconfedit for my Debian system to complete the > installation of coda-client but it?s missing in the package. > Can somone please send it to me? > > TIA Argh, it went into the server package, and there will be an install conflict between the coda-server and coda-client packages when I add it to both. Does anyone know a solution without creating yet another package (something like coda-common, containing only codaconfedit)? In any case, here it is. Jan ============================= codaconfedit ======================== #!/bin/sh # # codaconfedit, edits Coda configuration files. # # arguments: <configuration file> <variable> <newvalue> # # It looks for the configuration file specified by the user as is, and # by prepending the path of the coda configuration directory (/etc/coda, # /usr/pkg/etc/coda, /usr/local/etc/coda, depending on where Coda was # installed). If the variable already has the new value, nothing is # modified. Otherwise any existing entries are commented out and the new # entry is appended right behind the last existing previous entry (or at # the end of the configuration file if the variable didn't exist before. # set -e prefix="/usr" if [ $# != 3 ] ; then echo "Usage: $0 <conffile> <variable> <newvalue>" exit 1 fi conffile="$1" variable="$2" newvalue="$3" for cpath in "" /etc/coda/ ; do if [ -f "$cpath$conffile" ] ; then break fi if [ -f "$cpath$conffile.ex" ] ; then /bin/cp "$cpath$conffile.ex" "$cpath$conffile" break fi done if [ ! -f "$cpath$conffile" ] ; then echo "Couldn't find $conffile" exit 1 fi if `/bin/grep -q "^$variable=\"\?$newvalue\"\?$" $cpath$conffile` ; then exit 0 fi # Use ed to comment all previous declarations of the variable, # and append the new value. /bin/ed -s $cpath$conffile << EOF g/^#*${variable}=/s/^#*/#/ a ${variable}="${newvalue}" . w EOFReceived on 2001-03-06 12:07:54