config() { NEW="$1" OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)" # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over: if [ ! -r $OLD ]; then mv $NEW $OLD elif [ "$(cat $OLD | md5sum)" = "$(cat $NEW | md5sum)" ]; then # toss the redundant copy rm $NEW fi # Otherwise, we leave the .new copy for the admin to consider... } preserve_perms() { NEW="$1" OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)" if [ -e $OLD ]; then cp -a $OLD ${NEW}.incoming cat $NEW > ${NEW}.incoming mv ${NEW}.incoming $NEW fi config $NEW } preserve_perms etc/rc.d/rc.snort.new config etc/snort/snort.conf.new config etc/snort/reference.config.new config etc/snort/threshold.conf.new config etc/snort/attribute_table.dtd.new config etc/snort/classification.config.new config etc/snort/gen-msg.map.new config etc/snort/sid-msg.map.new config etc/snort/unicode.map.new