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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
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Subject: Re: Upgrade????? Was: Why does this fail?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.123907.22811@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 12:39:07 GMT
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Okay....I gotta be more specific next time....I received a number of separate fixes, all of which DID NOT contain a new /unix. Yet IBM has always said to apply the fix (which meant simply copying a file) and rebotting the machine to that somewhere in a .rc script the file would get read/executed. My gripe is that I cannot afford to take down systems (especially in a distributed environment w/YP, NFS, NCS, as well as my own distributed applications) just to get the file re-read. I would love to see IBM simp








ly tell me what commands from the .rc scripts I should re-execute.

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