I had a mail off list encouraging me to report the bug to bugzilla,
which I did.
The bugzilla ID is: 10567
Thanks, Craig.
Regards
Gustav
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have found what I believe is a serious bug in the upgrade to RH6.2
> (zoot).
>
> In RH6.0 and RH6.1 there was no /etc/ppp/ip-up.local provided. In the
> /etc/ppp/ip-up script, there is a test to see if the file
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.local exists and if it's executable. If so the file is
> executed.
>
> In the ip-up file there is a comment stating (and I quote):
> "This file should not be modified -- make local changes to
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.local instead"
>
> Great idea. That way I can make sure my local additions will not be
> overwritten by a new release from RedHat.
>
> Boy, did I get surpriced today.
>
> The upgrade from RH6.1 to RH6.2 overwrote my ip-up.local with a script
> file containing code to save resolv.conf if the interface is ippp
> (ISDN?).
>
> By chance, I had a backup of my ip-up.local (10KB+ of bash script)
> laying around. The backup was *almost* up to date.
>
> So, this is a *warning* to anyone doing the update: If you have your
> local stuff in the ip-up.local (as indicated in ip-up) then make sure
> that your backup is fresh. (BTW, it took me a good while before I
> understood why nothing worked when I connected to the 'net.)
>
> This is also a reminder to RedHat that there is a quite clear indication
> that the contents in ip-up.local is *mine* and no one elses. I can only
> interpret that as RedHat promising *not* to touch ip-up.local. This
> promise (if existing) was broken in the latest upgrade.
>
> Maybe something that lbero may bring to the RedHat team?
>
> Best regards
> Gustav
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