---
name: "update-reader.conf"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "pcscd"
version: "1.5.5-4"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-reader.conf"
---

# update-reader.conf(8)

(re)generate /etc/reader.conf

## NAME

update-reader.conf - (re)generate /etc/reader.conf

## SYNOPSIS

**update-reader.conf** \[force\]

## DESCRIPTION

**update-reader.conf** is a simple tool to manage */etc/reader.conf*. The PCSC daemon (pcscd) uses one configuration file for its configuration. This makes it hard for packages to dynamically add information about their own smart card reader drivers. To fix this **update-reader.conf** has been introduced.

**update-reader.conf** attempts to fix this by generating the configuration file from separate files which are located in */etc/reader.conf.d*. All files in that directory are assembled together to form */etc/reader.conf*.

After generation a backup of the old file is put in */etc/reader.conf.old*.

## FILES

**update-reader.conf** will ignore files that match the following regular expression:

**\*\\(\\.dpkg-\[a-z\]\*\\\|~\\)$**

(ie files with the extension *.dpkg-new*, *.dpkg-orig*, *.dpkg-dist*, *.dpkg-old*, or whose filename end with a *~*).

## OPTIONS

- *force*

  **update-reader.conf** check if the current */etc/reader.conf* is a generated file by checking for a special tag on the first line. If this tag is not found generation is aborted. By supplying *force* as parameter only a warning is printed.

## SEE ALSO

[**pcscd**(1)](/pcscd/1.md)

## BUGS

None of course! :)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ludovic Rousseau \<ludovic.rousseau@free.fr\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.