Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!accwai
From: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.people
Subject: Re: Fixed /vendor screwup "everywhere"
Message-ID: <432@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 89 15:47:03 GMT
References: <425@maytag.waterloo.edu> <16197@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
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In article <16197@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes:
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>This doesn't describe what the screwup was, so it's kind of
>hard to tell if one's machines are affected ...  And apparently
>it's not the screwup that I reported to Bill, because dragon
>still suffers from that one.

The problems fixed by the script are:

1) /vendor got created as a real directory under /, as oppose
   to under /usr and linked to /.

2) /vendor got created with the wrong permission.

This is really unfortunate 'cause the fix to (2) gets applied only
if (1) is detected.  That's why dragon is stilled not fixed.  I'll
do that right away.

As for the contents under /vendor, I don't know nothing about it.

Andy