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