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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