From: Dan Harkless Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:53:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: INSTALL never documented the etc/*.old thing. Documented the new etc/*.prev X-Git-Tag: kim-before-sasl~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c40202d3d91242b22664e1bb056a13dde4205661;p=mmh INSTALL never documented the etc/*.old thing. Documented the new etc/*.prev thing (including a note to watch for diff output). --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 69f94ea..1f74081 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Fri May 30 17:18:22 2000 Dan Harkless +Fri May 30 17:51:48 2000 Dan Harkless * etc/Makefile.in was incorrectly installing mts.conf.in and sendfiles.in -- fixed. Changed the suffix for the backed-up @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Fri May 30 17:18:22 2000 Dan Harkless redirect output to /dev/null so you'll notice when your changed versions are getting moved aside). + * INSTALL never documented the etc/*.old thing. Documented the + new etc/*.prev thing (including a note to watch for diff output). + Mon May 29 7:48:15 2000 Shantonu Sen * Moved the date parsing routines from zotnet/tws to sbr/ (and diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 63021e4..ca45be7 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. 4) make install + Note that if you have [n]mh files in your install directories with the same + names as the files being installed, the old ones will get overwritten without + any warning. The only directory that isn't true for is the `etc' directory + -- in that directory, the previous copy of each will be backed up as + .prev if it differs from the newly-installed copy. Watch for any diff + output while make is processing that directory to see if you need to merge + changes from *.prev files into the new versions. + 5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory) and make any necessary changes for the mail transport interface you are using.