This file is indexed.

preinst is in arpwatch 2.1a15-1.2.

This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.

The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.

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#!/bin/sh
# arpwatch.preinst: v4 2004/08/14 KELEMEN Peter <fuji@debian.org>

set -e



NAME=arpwatch
DBDIR=/var/lib/$NAME
DBFILE=arp.dat
BACKUPDIR=/var/backups

# Back up collected ARP databases.
if [ -d $DBDIR -a -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
	if [ -d $BACKUPDIR/$NAME ]; then
		rm -r $BACKUPDIR/$NAME
	fi
	cp -rp $DBDIR $BACKUPDIR/$NAME
	
fi