[491] in RedHat Linux List
updating to colgate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Tronson)
Tue Oct 22 22:13:14 1996
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:35:53 -0400."
<199610230135.VAA13375@dorothy.ccs.brandeis.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:11:13 +1000
From: Rohan Tronson <rohan@neddy.anu.edu.au>
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Congradulations RedHat, thanks for the new version.
I upgraded/installed 4.0 last night, and with a few minor hitches have it
working nicely.
Unfortunatelly, trying to upgrade I ran into snags because my /usr/doc,
/usr/games, /usr/local were symlinks to /home (which is a separate partition)
so any package that for instance put anything in /usr/doc failed to install!!!
I was able to boot in single user mode (/etc/mingetty hadn't installed but
/etc/inittab had). At this point I decided to reinstall from scratch, and
would readjust configuration files afterwards (which I had backed up before I'd
started upgrading).
Perhaps you might consider a check of the directory structure during upgrades,
early in the process, looking for this problem. Also a note in the users-guide
that these symlinks should be deleted might not go astray.
Anyway I was able to install RedHat 4.0 (ftp install) and everything worked
fine, I went over the errata sheet, installing any packages from there.
Straight after this install, I discovered permissions on /var/spool/mail
(drwxr-xr-x ) that were interferring with reading of mail,
so I changed this to (drwxrwxrr-x) and it is now working again.
Now it seems the only problem I'm suffering is that my rxvt's now export their
$TERM=xterm-color which isn't recognised by the SunOS machines that I use, can
anyone suggest how I might change this back to something more generic, or
otherwise tell the sun's how to deal with this (using tcsh on the suns, and
using
if( ${term} == 'xterm-color' )
setenv TERMCAP ....
endif
doesn't appear to be doing very much.
Thanks
Rohan Tronson
<rohan.tronson@anu.edu.au>
PS: To Brian Craft, the guy who posted with this topic before me, if you want
to post to this mailing list and hope to have your problems solved wouldn't
reading the list be a good idea ? Don't you think it's selfish to post a
question to a list you don't read ?
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