Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!karl From: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.sys.att Subject: TWG TCP/IP installation wipes out your /usr/lib/aliases file Message-ID: <268@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 13:06:46 EDT Article-I.D.: tut.268 Posted: Thu Oct 1 13:06:46 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 01:38:33 EDT Followup-To: comp.sys.att Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science Lines: 10 Xref: mnetor comp.bugs.sys5:255 comp.sys.att:1377 We received TCP/IP from AT&T the other day, and installed it on our SysVRel3.0 3B2 (osu-cis). It did one bad thing to us during the installation: We were already running smail2.5 and had an aliases file for it. The TCP/IP installation provides sendmail along with most of the other BSD networking tools, and in the process of installing itself, it wiped out our aliases file with its own prototype aliases file. Beware of this if your aliases file is long and important to you. -- Karl