geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (02/17/88)
In article <2662@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> hakanson@mist.UUCP (Marion Hakanson) writes: > I agree, it probably will be standard. But anything in /bin is > guaranteed to be lost in the next OS upgrade. We try to not even > add stuff to /usr/lib around here. Lately, we even stay out of /etc > as much as possible. The proper solution to this is to blast your OS supplier for being so arrogant and stupid as to distribute so-called upgrades that destroy important data. It is not really very hard to do it right; at Callan it cost us about two person-months. (In the "arrogant and stupid" department, BTW, the last update I got from Microport even wiped out /etc/passwd! Now that takes the cake.) -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff