Bug 131869
| Summary: | /etc/sysctl.conf overwritten and not backed up when initscripts rpm updated | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | David Gillies <gilliesd> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | rvokal, shillman |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-04-08 15:05:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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%config(noreplace) /etc/sysctl.conf It's already marked as such. Can you reproduce this at will? Due to no reply to the question in comment #1 in many months, closing. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-6.47.8-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make changes to /etc/sysctl.conf 2. rpm -Uvh initscripts*.rpm 3. check /etc/sysctl.conf for previous changes (there should be none) 4. check for any sysctl.conf.rpmsave or sysctl.conf.rpmnew. there won't be any Actual Results: /etc/sysctl.conf was overwritten with the packaged version Expected Results: /etc/sysctl.conf should have either been backed up to sysctl.conf.rpmsave or the packaged version should have been written to sysctl.conf.rpmnew Additional info: