Updating AIX 1.2 (Suggestion)

[Richard Mayson]

Another suggestion to free space on the PS/2.  If you have applied updates,
look at the directory /etc/lpp.save.  This can become very large, the    
subdirectories (which are numbers) can be removed if your updates are
complete.

Richard Mayson





bengsig at oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:

>[This thread started by somebody asking how to free space on a PS/2]

>This is great.  Two IBM'ers commenting each others articles, it gets amusing,
>as also noted by in article <1990Oct24.040918.14410 at panews> by jsalter at slo.UUCP
>(Jim Salter):
>|
>|This is great!  I don't think I've ever seen this many IBMer's on the
>|net before... and from AIX Support, too! (no sarcasm intended)

>Sure, no sarcasm, no criticism - we actually like to see you around.

>In article <4242 at aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com> gregfife at plkse.iinus1.ibm.com writes:
>|
>|Another thing you can do is tar up and remove /usr/man.

>I though of that as a nice idea, provided that you did install the man pages
>in the first place of course, but read on:

>Article <1990Oct24.040918.14410 at panews> by jsalter at slo.UUCP (Jim Salter)
>commented on this:
>|
>|Uhmm, this can lose you information.  The stuff found in /usr/man is
>|generally information that either wasn't deemed important enough to go
>|in the InfoExplorer pages, or (more likely) stuff that got thought of
>|too late in the process to make it into Info.

>Wow - this means that info is now available for the PS/2 AIX 1.2 as well -
>or is it that Jim Salter (whos answers are normally quite helpful) didn't note
>that this was for the PS/2.  Jim continues
>|
>|And, no, the ODM does not contain apar-fixes information as well :-).

>Since when did the PS/2 have an ODM?  (I wish it had)

>As a closing remark (completely out of context), it would be so, _so_, _SO_
>nice if IBM had an internet nameserver located @ibm.com, using MX records or
>whatever, so that we could simply mail you person at somewhere.ibm.com.  Since
>you are so much into the Unix business with the RISC System/6000 you should
>really get this set up as well.  It would also make my signature shorter :-)

>Thanks for reading this far,
>-- 
>Bjorn Engsig,         E-mail: bengsig at oracle.com, bengsig at oracle.nl
>ORACLE Corporation    From IBM: auschs!ibmaus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!oracle!bengsig

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