Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

[Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl>]

On 14 Jan 1998, Brederlow wrote:

> After installing libc5 you need to reboot to get the new utmp
> functions working. Because the reboot command uses the old utmp
> entries it cant detect the runlevel any more. One has to do a sync and 
> shutdown manually. The reboot command would just do a hardreset
> without flushing the cache. If one is not carefull there the unpacked
> libc5 / libc6 are still in cache and after reboot they are gone. And
> guess what you system does without a libc5 (or a broken one).

And what does 'shutdown -r -t3 now' do? If it does the right thing, the
script could warn the user about which command to use to reboot the
computer.

Remco
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