Only source configuration files that end with the `.conf` extension?

[phabricator-migrator]

Information

ID: 286
PHID: PHID-TASK-qjdqj6to5fzvvgyu4j5h
Author: Patrick
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

Description

! In T275#4134, @nrgaway wrote:
XXX: @Patrick, do your scripts ignore backed up files in directories such as /etc/whonix_firewall.d.... If not, maybe consider using a standard extension of .conf and only include those?

Files that end with ~ are ignored (backup files by many editors). Files that end with .dpkg-* are ignored (file names used by dpkg conflict resolution). So you could rename these files for example to .dpkg-nouse.

Do we want to rename all the config files to include a .conf extension and then only source those? Any opinions?

Existing documentation:

Configuration Files

The config folder sourceing code for #whonix-gw-firewall be viewed here:
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-firewall/blob/master/usr/bin/whonix_firewall#L27
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-firewall/blob/5ebca43416269a5fd42c98a80af1b0b3d38adecf/usr/bin/whonix_firewall#L27

Others for #whonixcheck etc. look similar.

Comments

---

Patrick

2015-11-30 19:56:22 UTC

Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension.

Thanks to @nrgaway for the suggestion!

https://phabricator.whonix.org/T286

https://github.com/Whonix/control-port-filter-python/commit/4280a718558f776bfac8b5b2fce3a13bd021fe5c @troubadour
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Kicksecure/open-link-confirmation@0b6c0f2 · GitHub
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Whonix/qubes-whonix@8282d2c · GitHub
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Kicksecure/rads@9e462bb · GitHub
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Kicksecure/sdwdate@47e9a0e · GitHub @troubadour
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Kicksecure/tb-starter@d4c9822 · GitHub
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Kicksecure/tb-updater@9ee254e · GitHub
Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension. · Whonix/uwt@4dd48f1 · GitHub
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-firewall/commit/eafa4a9f7ec30b706597c88fccd22506691dfb69
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-ws-firewall/commit/24baec332e1040056888cd0522760b4134b2920a
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-host-firewall/commit/e6caaa761b2a08569419a2c9756d133452fd256a
https://github.com/Whonix/whonixcheck/commit/afe9aad6aa25e7577442478ce8f1117b76f86bfe

Can you please check the #control-port-filter-python and #sdwdate commits? @troubadour?

---

Patrick

2015-11-30 21:55:34 UTC

https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/commit/1340726a83e5e02fe5e355cd20620d04335024c4

---

Patrick

2016-04-28 02:49:16 UTC

Since T503 is not yet implemented, Whonix 12 → Whonix 13 are currently broken because of #uwt. #whonix-repository and #tb-updater fails closed because the moment it uses gpg, /etc/uwt.d/30_uwt_default.conf does not exist, which results in “gpg” (actually uwt) failing. The solution I will be attempting is to make #uwt also work with built-in defaults (part of T503).

---

Patrick

2016-04-28 03:07:38 UTC

sane defaults even without config files · Whonix/uwt@651d2af · GitHub

---

Patrick

2016-04-29 00:50:44 UTC

! In T286#8987, @Patrick wrote:
sane defaults even without config files · Whonix/uwt@651d2af · GitHub

Works.

---

Patrick

2016-04-29 03:55:14 UTC

cleanup old config files · Kicksecure/sdwdate@0a0436b · GitHub