[SLE] /etc/profile modifications (was: Re: [SLE] 6.4 Lots of good. A few bumps.)
At 2000-04-09 21:21, you wrote: ...
Since I overwrote /etc/profile with my old one, I was left without. In some way, it is annoying, but in others -if it's moving towards THE standard- it's difficult to complain. ...
Imho, changes/additions to /etc/profile should be put in /etc/profile.local,
which you should be able to re-install on a new suse.
SuSE uses this scheme, localizations in /etc/someservice.local, more eg.
/sbin/init.d/boot.local etc.
So part of ungrade procedure could be to explicitly get those files:
find / -name '*.local' -print
and of course backing up /etc and /var/lib :)
There is a good chapter in the SuSE manual on upgrading from one version
to another---it's an explicit menu in YaST, too.
Good luck! Bye-bye, Eric
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Eric Maryniak
Eric Maryniak wrote:
At 2000-04-09 21:21, you wrote:
...
Since I overwrote /etc/profile with my old one, I was left without. In some way, it is annoying, but in others -if it's moving towards THE standard- it's difficult to complain. ...
Imho, changes/additions to /etc/profile should be put in /etc/profile.local, which you should be able to re-install on a new suse. SuSE uses this scheme, localizations in /etc/someservice.local, more eg. /sbin/init.d/boot.local etc.
yes. I should revert to that. And I should buy christmas presents right in time... ;-) I think I started "my own" /etc/profile *before* this came up. I should find out which package it's from, reinstall, compare and put the differences into profile.local. Or wait for the next update and do it then... ;-)
So part of ungrade procedure could be to explicitly get those files: find / -name '*.local' -print and of course backing up /etc and /var/lib :) There is a good chapter in the SuSE manual on upgrading from one version to another---it's an explicit menu in YaST, too.
yes, I realy didn't update, because I wanted Reiser FS and this meant a new install. In my experiance it's always some work to update - whatever method. I've read same stuff a few times in the manuals that came with various distros, and that makes me miss the important news when they appear, since I now don't expect much changes.
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