Status of the system: Principles

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## 1. Principles

Linuxconf defines the "required" configuration by looking at various configuration files. From the content or the revision date of each file, Linuxconf may take the following actions.

- (re)Configure a system (change the IP number of the Ethernet adaptor).
- Start a daemon.
- Kill a daemon.
- Kill/Restart a daemon.
- Send a signal to a daemon to force it to read its configuration file.

Linuxconf can do this work in simulation mode. In this mode it simply takes note of what has to be done. In activation mode the actions are performed and a log entry is written in /var/adm/netconf.log.

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