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Re: 8.4 and syncconf on IRIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Apr 20 14:33:40 2000
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU, rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:38:15 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:33:32 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> syncconf produces several errors of the following form when syncconf
> runs, on a machine updated to IRIX 6.5.7:
>
> UX:ln: ERROR: May not unlink existing /etc/hosts.saved - Error 0
syncconf's update function is creating .saved files which do not get
cleaned up:
update()
{
$maybe ln "$1" "$1.saved"
$maybe /bin/athena/syncupdate "$1.new" "$1"
}
I'll submit a patch to use "ln -f".
Bob
