On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 07:10, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:39:00PM +0100, Rune Berge wrote:
> > 
> > I just ran up2date and got the new xinetd package. However, I got a list
> > of warnings (see below), and I don't know what they mean. Does anybody
> > know? Do I have a problem, or can I just ignore them?
> 
> The warnings occur because you changed the xinetd configuration files
> before updating. Since the update doesn't want to overwrite the files
> and thus squash the changes you've made to them, it installs the
> new files with a ".rpmnew" extension to them and shows you a warning.
> 
> FWIW, I diff the new and old files, change the new files to mimic
> the old ones and then replace one with the other. YMMV.


The only real changes in the files are enhanced descriptions of the
services. These changes are relevant to Red Hat 7.2 and earlier. 7.3 and
8.0 already had the newer descriptions. Otherwise, they're identical (as
long as you've left them default and disabled). You can do an mv
<name>.rpmsave to <name> if that is the case for you or just leave them
be. 

-Rick
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