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 cop y 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} } config etc/tgt/targets.conf.new preserve_perms etc/rc.d/rc.tgtd.new