[lug] a bit tired of updates

[Pedersen, Michael J]

Again, something else I didn't know about.  Fortunately, I've never claimed
to be omniscient, nor omniscient about RedHat's RPM files :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Dodge [mailto:caldodge at fpcc.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:49 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] a bit tired of updates
> 
> 
> "Pedersen, Michael J" wrote:
> > 
> > a config file already in place, will ask me what to do with 
> it.  RedHat, as
> > far as I've ever seen, will simply overwrite it, tossing 
> the old information
> > away entirely.
> 
> That's interesting - every time I've done such an install recently Red
> Hat has saved such replaced config files with an extension of 
> "rpmsave".
> A quick "locate rpmsave | grep -v [KS] | wc" just informed me that I
> have 22 such files on my work computer.
> 
> Calvin
> 
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