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Re: Strange login behavior:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Nov 6 09:58:02 1996

Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:54:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <9611052200.AA29458@stereotaxis.wustl.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:

>    I believe in earlier versions, when things like /etc/hosts,
> /etc/passwd, or the httpd.conf got modified by an rpm upgrade,
> the original version used to get moved to *.rpmsave. Why was
> this feature removed?

This feature is still present. There may be a bug in it that's caused
by package prefixes or something similiar though. I'll look into the 
problems people are seeing.

Erik

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