karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (10/01/87)
We received TCP/IP from AT&T the other day, and installed it on our SysVRel3.0 3B2 (osu-cis). It did one bad thing to us during the installation: We were already running smail2.5 and had an aliases file for it. The TCP/IP installation provides sendmail along with most of the other BSD networking tools, and in the process of installing itself, it wiped out our aliases file with its own prototype aliases file. Beware of this if your aliases file is long and important to you. -- Karl
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (10/04/87)
In article <268@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: > ...in the process of installing > itself, it wiped out our aliases file with its own prototype aliases > file. Beware of this if your aliases file is long and important to > you. As a general rule, I think it wise to NEVER execute any installation script without first checking what it does. I have seen scripts that attempted to edit or evern replace /etc/passwd. And I've seen *lots* that would have wiped out something at least moderately important. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff