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- From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
- Subject: Inst issue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150642.1476@biome.bio.ns.ca>
- Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
- Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:06:42 GMT
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- Noting the postings about inst, I would like to add a comment, which could
- be considered a request for a change. Recently I installed a package
- which put stuff under /usr/local, and in the process changed some
- permissions and overwrote some files that I had put there.
-
- It would be nice if one could get inst to ask before making thse kinds
- of changes. They are OK if the changes affect /bin or other system
- directories that system administrators are not likely to mess around
- with (although I tend to install shells in /bin), but I don't want my
- /usr/local/bin directory screwed up without warning!
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- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
- P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577
- InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
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