[18013] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux verification doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Jul 17 20:15:46 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 17 Jul 2000 20:15:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:38:19 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1h3dl8waxd.fsf@w20-575-34.mit.edu>
A patch is in the works.
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Public workstation cleanup/etc/athena/verify: /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux: No such file or directory
> /etc/athena/verify: Can't find system area /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux.
>
> This is probably because AFS isn't started until somewhat later in the
> boot process.
D'oh! I'll do the RPM verification in a separate RC script that runs
later.
> Actually running the verify script takes a
> rather long time.
It has to m5sum more or less every file in the system.
> makes some changes to the machine which shouldn't be
> necessary
Can you be more specific?
> and destroys /etc/athena/rc.conf (presumably because it
> doesn't check to make sure that there is actually one present in the
> config area before overwriting it).
I've populated the 8.4.7 config area now, and my patch will also avoid
such a clobber of rc.conf.
Thomas
