URGENT HELP REQUIRED
Craig Boston
craig at xfoil.gank.org
Tue Apr 29 08:49:03 PDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:52, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> To everyone:
>
> I am downloading latest ISOs and will re-install but without removing my
> current installation (just overwrite).
>
> Anyone got any "gotchas" that I should know about or watch out for?
Main one I can think of, is if it's possible you should back up
/etc/master.passwd and /etc/groups. I think these get clobbered on an
install and rebuilding them from scratch can range from being somewhat
annoying (only one user) to being a major pain (many users and groups).
Craig
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