Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Wiping out /bin in OS upgrades
Message-ID: <517@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 13:22:05 GMT
References: <1682@desint.UUCP> <1007@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <46626@sun.uucp> <1703@desint.UUCP> <10851@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <10851@mimsy.UUCP> sjr@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Stephen J. Roznowski) writes:
>
>Sorry Chuq, but Geoff is right.  I have had to fight with the Sun
>setup/UPGRADE programs several times so that I can set the system
>up the way that I believe it should be.
>
>As examples, during the upgrade to 3.5, /.profile was not saved.

Perhaps Sun ought to hire Larry Wall for an evening.  I can see it
now:

	Looking for locally modified files...
		/.profile
		/etc/rc
		/.rhosts
		...

	Hmm, I don't see an /.rhosts file out there, offhand.  Want one? [y]

	Good. Looks like "perl" was installed in /bin.  Leave it there? [y]

	Congratulations, you don't have blah-blah disks!

	Some clown made / mode 777.  Leave it that way? [n]

	Want to patch your /etc/rc with new additions? [y]
		Hunk #1 succeeded at ...

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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