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Re: sun4 8.1.0: update_ws, mkserv
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Apr 23 18:16:24 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Albert Dvornik <bert@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, mkserv@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:48:17 EDT."
<199704231748.NAA00569@something-intelligent.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:16:10 EDT
It is normally the case that if a machine autoupdates it does not
prompt for answers to questions, but that manually updated machines
do. I don't have a problem with manually updated machiens no longer
doing so, as long as you are prompted when you run mkserv by hand, and
autoupdating machines do not prompt. This is accomplished by testing
-t 0 (at least that is how remote does it.) I don't know what
services inf runs, so I don't know if there is some service that
forgot to make this check, or if for some reason -t 0 evaluates to
true during the post reboot stage of a reboot. If it is the latter,
we need to do something or mkserv remote machines that try to
autoupdate will probably lose, and there are alot of those. If it is
the former, then you should complain about the given service to mkserv
(or its maintainer if it isn't a supported servce), preferably with a
patch.
Jonathon
