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Re: Strange login behaviour:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Smith)
Tue Nov 5 03:39:45 1996

Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 23:51:17 -0800
From: John Smith <jsmith@iceonline.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Allen Francom wrote:
> 
> I might be able to help with the host name thing...
> 
> When you upgraded you might have clobbered /etc/hosts
> 
> This file is used to lookup names and turn them into IP addresses:

The same here. After upgrade to 4.0 my /etc/hosts was
overwritten. Why did it happen? I thought RedHat upgrade
system was supposed to seemlesly overwrite older binaries
and add new ones without changing existing configuration.

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