On Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:52, Rodney Wishart wrote:
After upgrading to ver 8.1, I have several files mostly in /etc which end in .rpmsave and .rpmnew. . . My question is, can I just delete these files. I suspect they are backup files no longer needed.
Just yesterday, I went through a similar situation. You have to be careful with which is which. *Usually*, .rpmsave is the "old" file, and if everything has worked fine for sometime, you don't need the file. *Usually*, .rpmnew is the file created by rpm, to supplant the old file. What I do is, first, delete the original file (or, if unsure, rename it <oldfile>.orig), then rename the .rpmnew to the file of same name without the ".rpmnew" extension. -- Regards, gr (in /usually/ balmy, sunny Florida's Suncoast) [powered by SuSE-7.3 Linux 2.4.10]