07-16-2001
Update text files in place (string substitution) ??
The auditors have nailed us for world writeable files....
Apparently in years gone by, quite a number of our kornshell scripts have had:
umask 000 put in the script.
We have been able to turn off world writeable for existing dirs & files, but as these scripts run, new files keep getting created.
I used a utility many years ago which would do a string substitution within a series of files.
I would like to unilaterally comment out all umask commands within all of our scripts without having to modify them 1 at a time.
Running under Sun Solaris 7.
Any ideas out there?
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NAME
rc.config, rc.config.d - files containing system configuration information
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The system configuration used at startup is contained in files within the directory The file sources all of the files within and and
exports their contents to the environment.
/etc/rc.config
The file is a script that sources all of the scripts, and also sources To read the configuration definitions, only this file need be
sourced. This file is sourced by whenever it is run, such as when the command is run to transition between run states. Each file that
exists in is sourced, without regard to which startup scripts are to be executed.
/etc/rc.config.d
The configuration information is structured as a directory of files, rather than as a single file containing the same information. This
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/etc/rc.config.d/* Files
This is where files containing configuration variable assignments are located.
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protection against environment variable namespace collision in these configuration files. Programmers must take care to avoid such prob-
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