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   Vince Coen to RJ Clay   
   MBSE, Sysops and distros   
   16 Aug 15 16:02:31   
   
   Hello RJ!   
      
   Sunday August 16 2015 14:47, I wrote to you:   
      
    > Have now installed 106 over the installed 104 still using /home   
    > instead of /opt.   
      
    > Compiling the build was simple  just used   
      
    > ./configure --prefix=/home/mbse   
      
    > then used the standard su, make install  job done.   
      
      
    > We counld update mbsetup to check if the install is NOT to the   
    > standard /opt and if so migrate the existing file and msg .data files   
    > to use the new path. That will remove 98% of any migration.   
      
    > The oonly other areas to look at are:   
      
    > 1.  Check all scripts in ~/etc that the full path is not hard coded   
    > but using $MBSE_ROOT as originally supplied   
      
    > 2.  If not using the .profile export of $HOME in crontab to pre-set   
    > the paths i.e.,   
      
    > #Hourly   
    > 00 0-23 * * * $MBSE_ROOT/etc/hourly   
      
      
    > then modify the "/opt" to "/home".   
      
    > Now migration is complete.   
      
   Messed up that crontab line, this is what it should have said:   
      
   #Hourly   
   00 0-23 * * * $HOME/etc/hourly   
      
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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