This is puzzling.  I have never had rpm do this.  It could be that your 
tripwire provided rpm did some things as it uninstalled itself.
I would be curious if there was an uninstall script in the rpm.

Also check to see if the whole directory was moved.  try:
locate tripwire

Chuck




On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:34:27PM -0500, Todd Tibbetts wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.  This really has me puzzled...  I was going from 
> 2.3-47 (downloaded from tripwire.org) to 2.3.0-58 using up2date.  The upgrade 
> appeared to go smoothly.  I even got a message to the effect that the new 
> config files were being named .rpmnew.  However, when the update process was 
> complete the entire /etc/tripwire directory was gone.   There are no error 
> messages in the up2date log file.  
> 
> Ah well, how many times do I have to be taught to manually back up my config 
> files before I finally learn my lesson?
> 
> On Monday 06 August 2001 10:43 pm, you wrote:
> 
> > What version tripwire? If it is tripwire-2.3.0-58, I upgraded some time
> > ago without difficulty. Checking from a 7.1 system, I found no update,
> > so I assume that's the case.
> >
> > The most recent version, released with Roswell (Not that Roswell
> > exists, mind you) ;) is broken, but doesn't remove the /etc/tripwire/
> > directory. It just looks in the wrong place for the config file.
> > (/var/lib/tripwire, rather than /etc/tripwire/)
> >
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50685
> >
> > Sorry I can't be of more help, I've no idea why the directory would
> > vanish.
> >
> > -D
> 
> 
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