control-dump(8)

CONTROL-DUMP(8)

System Manager's Manual

CONTROL-DUMP(8)

NAME

control-dump, control-restore - dump or restore state of installed system facilities

SYNOPSIS

control-dump [FACILITY...]
control-restore [FACILITY...]

DESCRIPTION

control-dump and control-restore are intended to be used by package pre-install and post-install scripts, respectively, to dump and restore state of system facilities provided by those packages. This allows to keep the desired state of installed system facilities over package or OS upgrades.

FILES

/var/run/control/* - shell pattern of saved status files created by control-dump, later used and removed by control-restore
/etc/control.d/facilities/ - installed system facilities' control scripts to be invoked by control(8)
/etc/control.d/functions - common shell functions used by the above scripts

HISTORY

control-dump and control-restore first appeared in ALT Linux Sisyphus and Openwall GNU/*/Linux 1.0.

AUTHORS

Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Solar Designer <solar@owl.openwall.com>