Summary: Strange jumpstart behavior

From: Tim Kirby (trk_at_cray.com)
Date: 04/22/04

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    Originally posted as

    > Has anyone seen an issue where the symbolic link
    >
    > .../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/etc/inet/hosts
    >
    > (which should point at .../Solaris_9/tmp/root/etc/inet/hosts)
    >
    > gets overwritten as a regular file at the beginning of the jumpstart?
    > I really didn't think I was doing anything unusual here but this has
    > got me going round in circles; apart from busting the jumpstart tree
    > it leaves the jumpstarted machine with a brain damaged hostfile.

    It is, as most of the world who isn't on vacation or out of the office...
    <obpeeve>
      come on, people - if you're subscribing to this list you ought
      to be able to work out how to filter mail from a mailing list and not
      send back vacation responses to - well, who knows who)
    </obpeeve>
                                                        ... pointed out:

    That jumpstart share *shouldn't* have been exported rw. I'll swear it
    wasn't, but had brain been engaged I would have realized the implication of
    the question and not publicly demonstrated that I wasn't paying attention.

    Sorry for the waste of bandwidth, folks.

    Tim 

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Tim Kirby                                       651-605-9074
trk@cray.com                   Cray Inc. Information Systems
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