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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: TWG TCP/IP installation wipes out your /usr/lib/aliases file
Message-ID: <1321@desint.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 16:09:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 16:09:01 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 07:16:51 EDT
References: <268@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <268@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:

> ...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.

As a general rule, I think it wise to NEVER execute any installation
script without first checking what it does.  I have seen scripts that
attempted to edit or evern replace /etc/passwd.  And I've seen *lots*
that would have wiped out something at least moderately important.
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff