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Re: yabootconfig: please test



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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