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From: stone@apollo.COM (Jonathan Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: changing from soft to hard links under SR10
Message-ID: <404a1ba2.71e0@apollo.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 13:10:00 GMT
References: <9092@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: stone@polgara.UUCP (Jonathan Stone)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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Vince,
   
> I have SR10 running on a node and (I guess foolishly)
> chose to install some things like help,man,systest,etc.
> as soft links to another node when I probably should
> have hard-linked to my authorized area on the local node.

> Can someone tell me how to get my local software to be
> completely hard-linked to the authorized area???  

Hard linking to the Authorized Area is actually a feature of the 
RAI tool set.  Since you've already run the install once, you 
simply need to rerun with different options.  Rerun config to 
change the choices for these items to 'copy' instead of 'link'.
Then, rerun install using the '-l' and '-m' options.  You can 
do this either with config and then install, or use these same 
options when invoking install++.

      '-l' : Requests hard links where possible
      '-m' : (among other things) changes your links to copies (hard links).

> Also, is there any way to copy an authorized area from
> another node (on another ring) via a /install/tools tool
> or is the proper way to just do a cpt -sacl -ms -force ?

Yes, that's the correct method with some additional reccomendations :

      o For 'cpt', you should also use the '-pdt' option.
      o Be sure to login as 'root' to preserve the ACLs for
        any objects which are setuid root.
      
Note : Don't put your AA on a pre-sr10 volume.

> (the following is an editorial note having no relation tothe 
> nice folks at Boeing but just to me)

> "thanks for rai/install++/configure...they are beyond
> 	wonderful and will be of great value when I have to make 
> 	about 75-100 nodes magically appear at SR10.0 in about
> 		6 months.  The transition from SR9.7 to SR10.x
> 	was truly "no big deal" compared with a lot of the 
> 	(somewhat justified, I guess) paranoia out there 
> 	in the Apollo user world"

Thank you!!  That sort of news makes all the work worthwhile.

                                                      Jonathan Stone
                                                      stone@apollo.com