On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:15:41AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > existing /etc/yaboot.conf is saved to /etc/yaboot.conf.old, only one > > backup is kept, eg, the .old is overwritten the next time yabootconfig > > runs. please suggest other/better methods of handling this > > situation if you find this suboptimal. > > I think lilo currently uses the logrotate bits for doing this somehow. > Could be worth trying to do this too.. no logrotate on boot floppies... and i rather find the idea of bootloaders depending on logrotate absurd ;-) and last i heard it used logrotate to rotate the bootblocks in /boot, and just blew away the /etc/lilo.conf without asking or making backups. now it just does not ever touch /etc/lilo.conf at all. i could easily make more then one backup without logrotate, how many do you think is useful? > > you can find it and a gpg signature at http://penguinppc.org/files/eb > > 404, and penguinppc.org is really depressed about this too. :) er http://penguinppc.org/files/users/eb -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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