custom program problem

[Matthew Thurmaier]

In article <4163 at questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff at questar.UUCP (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>
>	Hi,
>
>	(XENIX 386 2.3.2)
>
>	Q. What did I do wrong?
>
>	1. I installed games using 'custom'
>	2. I decided to un-install games using 'custom'
>	3. When I selected to remove ALL, custom began removing
>	   my OPERATING SYSTEM, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!.
>
>	Now, lest you thinks me a moron and that I had actually selected
	[stuff deleted...]
>	Thanks in advance,
>		Jeff
>-- 
>Jeff Holmes	                  DOMAIN: jeff at questar.mn.org 
>Questar Data Systems                UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
>St. Paul, MN 55121		    AT&T: +1 612 688 0089

Jeff,
	This may not help much but, ya - it's a bug.  It's happened to me
once or twice.  One day I was having lunch with another trainer (Chris
Hare of Choreo Systems in Canada) and he said 'ya - it's a bug'.  I just
stopped removing it w/ custom after the second time (and reporting it
to SCO).  Chris actually looked at the CUSTOM shell scirpt and tried
to figure it out (he's great with shellish problems), but couldn't see
anything wrong w/ the bug.

	THE WORKAROUND is to do a 'rm -r /usr/games' to remove all of them,
or to remove each individual game by hand.

Later,
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