Upgrade 5.0d for 9825

[Phillip Millman]

> 
> Now we're looking at a OSx5.1 upgrade.  Anybody got war stories about that?
> -- 

YUP. Here's mine.  At my previous firm, we upgraded from a 9815 to a MIS 4-2.  This
entailed going from OSx4.4c to OSx5.1a.  First of all 5.1 is at "a" revision which
means alot of undocumented features.  The one that caused us the most problems
was the process spawned by root have a non-modifiable path.  So if you have
programs in (for example) /usr/localbin that calls another program in the same 
directory, it won't work.  This is a security feature.  We also had a few programs
within cron fail for reasons unknown.

I would wait until 5.1b comes out. (about 3 months)  The other problem was that 
RTOC couldn't figure out what was going on 'cause nobody was supposed to have 5.1
so they weren't trained on it.


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