--- Ken Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sooooo, I had this bright idea to replace shutdown with a script that > would take an additional parameter of the hostname of the system. The > script would then check the hostname given on the commandline against > the hostname of the system it was being run on and only pass on the rest > of the parameters to the real shutdown command if they matched.
You could just not be a klutz, of course. :) > So, here is my question. How can I make it so that if I upgrade the > sysvinit package on a system, it will either just not touch the > /sbin/shutdown file, or better yet, redirect the new /sbin/shutdown file > to /sbin/shutdown.real instead? Is that possible? dpkg -i --force-confold /var/lib/info/dpkg/name_of_deb.deb -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
