jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (12/04/89)
Hi, (XENIX 386 2.3.2) Q. What did I do wrong? 1. I installed games using 'custom' 2. I decided to un-install games using 'custom' 3. When I selected to remove ALL, custom began removing my OPERATING SYSTEM, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!. Now, lest you thinks me a moron and that I had actually selected to remove the OS instead of GAMES, I know that I had selected the games set from the initial screen. And when I chose the option number to remove a package the screen came up with the games package, ALL for games was completely installed. I then proceeded to type ALL at the prompt for "which parts to be removed". Well, there isn't much more to say about this (it's a pretty simple task) except that I had no idea what was going on until custom asked me what I wanted to do with the files in /usr/spool/mail. I guess what I'm implying is that it seems there could be a problem with custom. Anyone ever had this happen? Thanks in advance, Jeff -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff St. Paul, MN 55121 AT&T: +1 612 688 0089
thurm@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Matthew Thurmaier) (12/08/89)
In article <4163@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.UUCP (Jeff Holmes) writes: > > Hi, > > (XENIX 386 2.3.2) > > Q. What did I do wrong? > > 1. I installed games using 'custom' > 2. I decided to un-install games using 'custom' > 3. When I selected to remove ALL, custom began removing > my OPERATING SYSTEM, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!. > > Now, lest you thinks me a moron and that I had actually selected [stuff deleted...] > Thanks in advance, > Jeff >-- >Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org >Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff >St. Paul, MN 55121 AT&T: +1 612 688 0089 Jeff, This may not help much but, ya - it's a bug. It's happened to me once or twice. One day I was having lunch with another trainer (Chris Hare of Choreo Systems in Canada) and he said 'ya - it's a bug'. I just stopped removing it w/ custom after the second time (and reporting it to SCO). Chris actually looked at the CUSTOM shell scirpt and tried to figure it out (he's great with shellish problems), but couldn't see anything wrong w/ the bug. THE WORKAROUND is to do a 'rm -r /usr/games' to remove all of them, or to remove each individual game by hand. Later, Snail Mail: E Mail: Matthew J. Thurmaier ...decvax!garp!harvard!uwvax!thurm The Computer Classroom matt@shorty.cs.wisc.edu 6701 Seybold Road, Ste. 122 Madison, WI 53719 (608) 271-2171 "why am I ALWAYS going somewhere?" >>-matt-->