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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: The Third Degree
- Message-ID: <Aug.16.22.03.31.1992.17257@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 02:03:33 GMT
- References: <SHARMAN.92Aug16185517@sharman.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman) writes:
-
- >So, if one is installing a new init for example, what is the "proper"
- >way to do it? Go ahead and then "fsck", kill init and reboot,
- >or what? I don't quite know what the "being more careful"
- >really means here.
-
- I recommend renaming the running files to init.OLD, etc. Then put the
- new versions up. Then reboot. At that point the new ones will be
- running, so you can rm the old ones. No file system problems will be
- created.
-