Subj : MBSE, Sysops and distros
To : RJ Clay
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sun Aug 16 2015 04:02 pm
Hello RJ!
Sunday August 16 2015 14:47, I wrote to you:
> Have now installed 106 over the installed 104 still using /home
> instead of /opt.
> Compiling the build was simple just used
> ./configure --prefix=/home/mbse
> then used the standard su, make install job done.
> We counld update mbsetup to check if the install is NOT to the
> standard /opt and if so migrate the existing file and msg .data files
> to use the new path. That will remove 98% of any migration.
> The oonly other areas to look at are:
> 1. Check all scripts in ~/etc that the full path is not hard coded
> but using $MBSE_ROOT as originally supplied
> 2. If not using the .profile export of $HOME in crontab to pre-set
> the paths i.e.,
> #Hourly
> 00 0-23 * * * $MBSE_ROOT/etc/hourly
> then modify the "/opt" to "/home".
> Now migration is complete.
Messed up that crontab line, this is what it should have said:
#Hourly
00 0-23 * * * $HOME/etc/hourly
Vince
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