How to check what files have been customised in /etc?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 17:28 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> This assumes that other files are named "01-foo.conf" etc. and no
> file "foo.conf", let alone "goo.conf" does exist.

Things that use this system generally ignore un-numbered files
completely, so oo.conf and goo.conf would not be read. And you can also
"turn off" a settings file by renaming it to e.g. "x-01-foo.conf".

> This issue wouldn't exist, if all settings would be provided by one
> file and no drop-in file would be allowed to override settings.

True, but then you would have no modularity and no easy way to separate
standard from custom configuration.

No system is perfect, but this has stood the test of time from as far
back as SystemV init files at very least.

Regards, K.

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