WARNING 3B1 ATTFixDisk breaks HDB
Pat Myrto
pat at rwing.UUCP
Sun Aug 13 00:29:47 AEST 1989
In article <12385 at s.ms.uky.edu>, david at ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
> One of the files the fixdisk replaced was
>
> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
>
> it's no wonder that UUCP stopped working for you.
In the above, the uucico was a Version 2, which overwrote HDB uucico.
The above example is why I have formed the habit of examining the
contents of an archive (disk or otherwise) and save things I am unsure
about before I let it overwrite anything. In the case of cpio
archives on floppies, this is by doing (from a shell prompt):
cpio -iBctv </dev/rfp021
and watching the listing. The "t" option prevents an actual write,
and causes a listing instead, the "v" makes the listing in long form.
If its an "auto-install", I also like to extract into a test
directory, and look over the install script before I commit and
actually install the package. This has saved me headaches on a number
of occasions. Even if "Install" scripts save things, often it is not
complete, so by doing this I get a chance to save - usually as a tar
file - anything I may want to recover if the install doesn't go as
expected.
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