[Cialug] A word to the wise

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Tue Mar 20 08:52:55 CDT 2007


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tom Pohl wrote:
> I will admit, this picture did pop into mind, almost instantly last night:
> http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

BTDT, got the tshirt (really)

My favorite is http://despair.com/incompetence.html
Sometimes trying harder doesn't work.

> On Mar 20, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>> Tonight, I learned an important lesson about redhat type boxes and yum!
>>> Yum apparently uses /etc/redhat-release to tell what version and flavor 
>>> distro you are using.  If you change /etc/redhat-release to reflect a 
>>> certain "compatible" version of a different redhat operating system (say 
>>> redhat-4 instead of fedora core 5 (or even 6)), make sure you change it 
>>> BACK before next running yum update.
>> 
>> "Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. ..." :-)
>> 
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>> Dave Weis
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