[23244] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.13: /sbin/update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Fri Jul 25 18:18:39 2003
Message-Id: <200307252218.SAA04465@athenaphobia.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:24:51 EDT."
<200307251024.h6PAOptQ022655@brad-majors.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:18:38 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> No, /sbin/update isn't supposed to exist on a Redhat 9 machine; you
> should have an /etc/inittab.rpmnew that fails to contain that line, and
> machines installed directly at 9.2 shouldn't have it, either. The
> initscripts RPM declares /etc/inittab as %config(noreplace) so won't
> drop any new files in place over it. The error should be purely
> cosmetic, although we can put something in the athena-ws rpm to remove
> that line.
That's only half of the problem. I had been debugging this in parallel,
and in fact machines installed directly at 9.2 *do* have that line in
their /etc/inittab if they're PUBLIC=true. Garry's patch will take the
line out of a machine once, and it'll be promptly put back because it exists
in /afs/{dev,athena}/system/rhlinux/config/9.2.*/etc/inittab and verify copies
that onto public machines.
Someone needs to make a non-symlinked config directory and fix inittab in it.
One wonders what other problems we might have inadvertently left in config
files.
Mitch
