[1515] in Release_7.7_team
Re: /etc/athena/inetd.conf.old
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 2 17:51:18 1998
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 16:51:49 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 17:51:17 -0300
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I think this is better fodder for bugs than release-team, just for
future reference.
> If /etc/athena/inetd.conf is customized on an mkserv remote machine
> (e.g., to deal with the HostExplorer bug), it doesn't seem to wind
> up in /etc/athena/inetd.conf.old after the update.
This is because two parts of the update (do-update and mkserv) are
doing "move the file aside to foo.old before fiddling with it." It's
a long-standing bug. I'll try to do something about it for 8.3.
