[2977] in testers
Re: another mkserv problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jun 25 19:30:29 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mkserv@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 03:39:48 EDT."
<199606190739.DAA00763@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:30:17 EDT
> So, I found another mkserv problem. Actually this is a problem that
> existed in 7.7 and continues to exist in 8.0. The problem is that
> certain directories may get brought local, but the symlinks on the
> /usr partition are not re-pointed to the /var/server version of these
> directories. I have a patch which seems to work under 8.0, but I have
I have finished testing this patch and I have installed it. The patch
is not designed to be 100% perfect. However, it should allow the root
symlinks to be updated currectly for many more files. The reason I
did not make it perfect is that that would have required hardcoding
some very specific things into the mkserv binary, which I didn't want
to do.
Jonathon
