leo@aai.com (04/06/91)
I got a surprise when I installed the X5 and X6 updates for asy. This "fixes shared dial-in/dial-out lines with modems allowing for bi-directional communication over modems." There was no mention in the release notes of any side-effects. After building a new kernal and rebooting, the warning message "no access to tty, thus no job control in this shell" appeared whenever csh is started up! Great! There goes job control! Is there a workaround for this? Personally, I'll be using FAS instead, but if there's a workaround I'd like to know what it is. Since Driver.o is replaced by the update, I don't think there's any way to back out. So... I'm restoring from tape. Are there any undesirable side-effects that have been noticed after installing any of the other updates? Do you install all updates or do you only install if you absolutely have to? I've learned my lesson! From now on I backup /etc/conf before applying updates. Actually, I guess that since the update could mess with files anywhere on the system the only safe thing to do is a complete backup. -- Leo leo@aai.com leo%aai@uunet.uu.net ...uunet!aai!leo
leo@aai.com (04/06/91)
In comp.unix.sysv386 I wrote: >I got a surprise when I installed the X5 and X6 updates for asy. This >"fixes shared dial-in/dial-out lines with modems allowing for >bi-directional communication over modems." There was no mention in the >release notes of any side-effects. Jonathon at ISC mailed me a reply: > Um, the X5/X6 update is for 2.0.2 and earlier releases. They don't have > job control. The *only* updates for 2.2 and later are named > "SSU<something>". Btw, 2.2 already has all the stuff in the X5/X6 > updates as standard equipment. Thanks for the info, Jonathan! I just got the 2.2.1 kit from MSC and I asked them to send a complete set of updates FOR THAT RELEASE. Looks like they sent me more than I needed! Unfortunately, the documentation didn't help much. It would be VERY helpful if ISC would put at the top of each update release note ( or maybe even on the floppy itself) something like: This update is applicable to release 2.0.2 only. And in the notes for a relase: Release 2.2.1 incorporates the following updates to 2.0.2: X1, X2, X3, X4, X5... Updates for release 2.2.1 will have the designation: "SSU<something>" -- Leo leo@aai.com leo%aai@uunet.uu.net ...uunet!aai!leo