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Subject: RE: system upgrade resets .profile
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:22:46 -0700
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From: "Deepak Veliath" <deepak.veliath@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

Is there a way to specify that a (config) file should be updated only if
its not been modified by the admin?

u> It didn't happen on BSD because the legacy systems did not=20
u> install a .profile. With Linux and  Bash we are installing a=20
u> .profile in /root. If anyone had a .profile it was because=20
u> it was created manually.=20
u>=20
u> On BSD systems it was the .cshrc file that was overwritten=20
u> with every upgrade. Our current product versions do not=20
u> preserve the dot files in /root that it "knows" about.
u>=20
u> We could add the dot files to the list of files not to=20
u> upgrade. We have a couple of mechanisms for doing that.=20
u>=20
u> 1. We can ignore upgrading them by adding them to the descr=20
u> files 2. We can add them to the list of config files that=20
u> are preserved and copied whenever an upgrade or system=20
u> config <whatever> command is run.
