The Importance of Running SuSEconfig After Installing

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By Kirk Coombs

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Applies to:

• All Novell/SUSE Linux Products

SUSE Linux stores much of its configuration information in the files and folders under /etc/sysconfig/.

These configuration options can be used in two ways:

1. They can be read directly
2. They can be migrated to other configuration files in /etc/ with the /sbin/SuSEconfig command.

The configuration migration method is most often the case when an option in /etc/sysconfig/ leads to several changes in other configuration files.

Next time you install a package with YAST, notice that it runs SuSEconfig after completing the installation of the packages. This is because newly installed packages may have included changes to the configuration options in /etc/sysconfig/.

It is important for these changes to be migrated to the proper configuration files. Thus, it is important to run SuSEconfig manually after installing packages manually.

For example:

# rpm -i package.rpm # SuSEconfig Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool... Running in full featured mode. Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system... ... (many config scripts are executed) ... Finished.

Reader Comments

• It took me a wild to learn it, as simple as it is but good to know. For those that do not like using the terminal then try Yast.
• Brilliant advice - I for one have installed quite a few packages from the command line using rpm - no problems so far - but that doesnt mean I wont remember to run SuSeconfig in the future ;-)

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