From 883c7d98dd2fdead2cf1e0c945f293419d40e003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:16:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] nearly live

---
 scripts/core/functions.sh         | 2 +-
 scripts/system/common_sysadmin.sh | 9 ++++-----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/core/functions.sh b/scripts/core/functions.sh
index 7b732160..8772dfdc 100644
--- a/scripts/core/functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/functions.sh
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ echo ongoing skip count is now $skip_count
 
 #put the file back into place.
 echo file we created looks like this:
-filedump "$new_version"
+cat "$new_version"
 
     \mv "$new_version" "$filename"
     test_or_die "moving the new version into place in: $filename"
diff --git a/scripts/system/common_sysadmin.sh b/scripts/system/common_sysadmin.sh
index d3dfbad1..af0cf3db 100644
--- a/scripts/system/common_sysadmin.sh
+++ b/scripts/system/common_sysadmin.sh
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ function remove_subdomain()
     return 0
   fi
 
-  create_chomped_copy_of_file "$domain_file" \
-      "${subdomain}.*${containing_domain} *IN *A *${IP_ADDRESS}" 1
+  create_chomped_copy_of_file "$domain_file" "${old_domain}" 2
 }
 
 # adds a new subdomain under a containing domain.
@@ -153,9 +152,9 @@ function add_new_subdomain()
   if grep -q "$new_domain" "$domain_file"; then
     echo "The subdomain $subdomain already seems to exist in the domain"
     echo "configuration file: $domain_file"
-    echo "Please edit the config file to remove the subdomain before trying"
-    echo "to re-add the subdomain."
-    exit 1
+    echo "We are considering our work done; if you want to modify the subdomain,"
+    echo "then please call remove_domain on it first."
+    return 0
   fi
 
   # append the new subdomain into the config file.
-- 
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