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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:14:59 -0700
From: "Justin Patrin" <papercrane@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster
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On 10/14/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> As I expected it would, dispatch-conf
> over-wrote/corrupted a lot of files without giving me
> a chance to stop it. It left no log(file was empty)in
> /var/log/dispatch-conf.log. or any record of its
> passing that I can find.
>
Why did you expect this and, if you expected it, why didn't you take
steps to back things up.
dispatch-conf normally works just fine. Perhaps you set some incorrect
options in your dispatch-conf conf file, such as auto-updating of all
files. You also should have set up RCS backups of your conf files so
that you can move back.
--
Justin Patrin
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