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From: reilly@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (G. Brendan Reilly)
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Subject: Re: Installed a buggy kernel ext.  Duh, what do I do now?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 04:37:45 GMT
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This is in response to the neophyte who wants IBM to port
SMIT to other systems:  Before this happens, make sure
that SMIT will give error messages when an error occurs.  I
just used SMIT to install 3002 and it decided to tell
everything was great even though the kernel was not updated.
Now, besides this, the csh it left on the system is invalid,
as well as other errors.  You may want to be careful about 3002.

When I called IBM Defect Support the person there asked me
to send a copy of the diskettes (all 16) to him since they
didn't have a copy as of yet.  I guess they got it later in
the day since the three other people I've spoken with
haven't asked me to send them their own software.

I stand with Steve - IBM made a major mistake redefining all
of the system management tools, and they are full of bugs.
The last thing any system needs is buggy system managment tools.