question re Suse

[Keith Antoine]

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 13:08, Jack Berger wrote:
> Well, and I MIGHT be totally wrong here...
>
> (probably really wrong in assuming it was directed at me in the first
> place!)
>
> From what I can tell about SuSEconfig, it is run automatically after you
> update or change a system w/Yast or Yast2. Just installing an rpm doesn't
> necessarily trigger it, unless of course you do that from within
> Yast/Yast2. I've installed rpms outside of YAST/2 but the don't seem to
> show up in var/adm/SuSEconfig files until I run SuSEconfig. On the
> otherhand i've installed some stuff from tar files and they never show up
> in any of the var/adm/SuSEconfig files.
>
> So, w/o digging into the workings of SuSEconfig more I guess I don't see
> that it will do what you want.
>
> The command w/options is:
>
>   SuSEconfig [--quick|--nonewpackage|--force|--verbose] [--module name]
>
> -jhb-

Well you were not, that was exactly what i was looking for. However I was also  
not placing too much faith in the command either. I have had another case of 
a loaded lib not being seen by the OS even after a re-install. 

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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