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- From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
- Subject: Installation overwrites inittab - why?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.132413.11453@biome.bio.ns.ca>
- Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:24:13 GMT
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- After upgrading to IRIX 4.0.5 I discovered that the installation
- overwrote /etc/inittab, thereby turning off our dialin ports.
- I ran into this while working through the changed versions, but I can't
- see any justification for this, since none of the other lines are
- changed. I suggest that an inittab.N file be installed rather than
- replacing inittab as a default. Does anybody see any logic to the
- current practice?
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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
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