[comp.sys.mac.misc] FreshStart and upgrading the system software; Fortune acts weird

kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (07/22/90)

(For those who don't know, FreshStart is an init that manages your
INIT's CDEV's and RDEV's.  You create one or more configurations, and
FreshStart picks just the indicated resources for the current session.)

FreshStart keeps the managed files in three subfolders of the blessed
folder.  This way, FreshStart is the only INIT that the normal startup
stuff sees, and it gets to manage the others.

Of course, the installer on my new 6.0.5 system software doesn't know
about any of this, and so made some mistakes about what to install.
So I hauled all the stuff out of the subfolders and tried again.  This
was much better.

Then FreshStart could be configured to put all those files back in their
subfolders for me.

The funniest part was that when it was out of the subfolder, FortuneII
would freeze the system and the startup would not complete.  I had to
put it manually into the subfolder, and then everything went okay.

That is particularly weird; it seems Fortune now does not want to run
under the system directly, but somehow _requires_ FreshStart.  Hmmmm.
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