Thanks Dave.

Now all I want to know is, when freeVSD is creating a new VS based on
skel X, how does it know which files to hard link and which ones to
copy?

Bye

Ben K

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Cost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: The skel


Hey Ben,

Best practise when you do what you're doing is to make a new skel by
copying
all files from the old skel to a new one and updating files there, then
register the new skel with freevsd and then relink the virtuals.
Anything
else and you're looking for trouble.

You're not always working on the original file when
copying/tarring/installing etc etc. Some utilities will create a
temporary
file, copy stuff there, then unlink the old file and rename the new one.
This way you update a new file and not the one linked with the hard
link. So
you get a new version in one vds and an old hardlink in the other
places.

So, follow best practise and you're set ;-)

Dave.

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