config() { NEW="$1" OLD="`dirname $NEW`/`basename $NEW .new`" # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over: if [ ! -r $OLD ]; then mv $NEW $OLD elif [ "`cat $OLD | md5sum`" = "`cat $NEW | md5sum`" ]; then # toss the redundant copy rm $NEW fi # Otherwise, we leave the .new copy for the admin to consider... } preserve_perms() { NEW="$1" OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)" if [ -e $OLD ]; then cp -a $OLD ${NEW}.incoming cat $NEW > ${NEW}.incoming mv ${NEW}.incoming $NEW fi config $NEW } config etc/btsync.conf.new preserve_perms etc/rc.d/rc.btsync.new