What about --force? will that overwrite files? That vaguely seems
familiar... I guess I should do a quick redhat install on some pos machine
around here so I can keep up with the times ... hehe
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From: Mike Fletcher ">fletch@phydeaux.org>
To: Patrick ">tewkewl@mindspring.com>
Cc: Jeff Dilcher ">dilcher@cueva.com>; Ale@Ale. Org ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] smb.conf file needed
> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick ">tewkewl@mindspring.com> writes:
>
> Patrick> I don't remember Redhat's package manager too well, but
> Patrick> back in the day I think you could do a rpm -v to verify
> Patrick> and it would replace the files. Do a man on rpm and see
> Patrick> what it comes up with before you try this though, for all
> Patrick> I know -v could run fdisk... :p
>
> No, -v (or --verify) simply makes rpm check the current state
> of the disk against what its database says things should look like.
> It'll tell you what's different, but it won't make any changes. There
> are a --setperms and --setugids that will correct permissions and
> ownership. But if you change content it can't really do anything
> about it.
>
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