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Re: Strange login behaviour:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robob)
Tue Nov 5 14:40:17 1996

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:41:30 -0500 (EST)
From: robob <robob@robob.com>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, John Smith wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
>

I have complained repeatedly about this crap.  It overwrites my httpd.conf
and other stuff that is NOT necessary.  I then have to spend time copying
back the originals.

I am a HUGE RedHat fan, ask the folks where I work, but this needs to be
corrected in the NEXT release.  Some (most?) of us have highly configured
systems.  
 
Robert A. Ober
Robob@robobo.com	www.robob.com, ftp.robob.com, robob1.robob.com,etc



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