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- From: limes@ouroborous.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Limes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: /usr/kvm/machine on 4.1.2 machines
- Date: 31 Jul 1992 17:51:39 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <l7ivdbINNa3n@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <92Jul27.174854edt.87795@maytag.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <92Jul27.174854edt.87795@maytag.uwaterloo.ca> Asokan <nasokan@maytag.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
- | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 16 Feb 25 14:24 machine -> ../include/sun4c
- | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 15 Apr 23 1991 machine -> ../include/sun3
- | ...
- | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 Jan 10 1992 machine -> ./sys/sun4m
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- | which is a dangling symlink where /usr/kvm/sys doesn't exist.
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- | Is this how Sun delivers 4.1.2?
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- Yes.
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- | Why was this changed?
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- There are no existing technical reasons for this change.
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- | Is there any harm in changing /usr/kvm/machine to point
- | to ../include/sun4m instead (at least on those systems
- | that do not have the "Sys" software subset loaded?
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- No problem whatsoever. Go for it.
-