AIX

That depends. It depends on what stands in the working configuration file and if anything of this is machine-dependent or not. IF there is nothing in the file which is only valid for the source machine (something like a hostname, an IP address, or whatever) and IF the one system is supposed to have the same configuration as the other, then, probably, yes, you can copy that file.

Notice, though, that a daemon process reads its configuration at startup and doesn't notice a changed configuration file if not explicitly told to do so. Depending on your configuration (which we still do not know) either restart the service via the SRC (see posting above) or by sending a HUP signal to the daemon:

Code:

# ps -fe | grep ssh
    root  2687266  5439554   0   Jun 14      -  0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
    root 11796770 26411068   0 12:48:12  pts/1  0:00 grep ssh

# kill -1 2687266

I hope this helps.

bakunin