Sometime in the middle of the night

I look up and it's 2 am. Whee! Haven't done this in a while. I'm redesgining my entire mail system, including changing my MTA and list software. No more qmail is the goal. I have a detailed transition plan now. And now I also remember why I don't want to be a real sysadmin: this is a lot of work!

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.

pjones should take a look at how dpkg handles conffile replacements. It really works rather well. Diffing is an option, though it doesn't auto-patch (yet). However, this basic idea (prompting with a well-thought out default) just doesn't work very well in the rpm world, where package installs are something you do fully noninteractively.