[pca] A question about how Safe operates.

[McGraw, Robert P]

I have safe set to 1 and reboot set to one as my default.

I had a couple patches that were caught by safe=1. I check out the information and decided to go ahead and install the patches using —no-safe. I noticed that for the files that were  marked as not the same, pca created the new file with the name concatened with ".new". So I went to each of the files diff'ed them to see the difference and where I wanted the new file I just moved the name.new to the to just name.

I had another patch that required a reboot reconfigure after the install. I ran pca with  --no-reboot and —no-safe. It seem to run ok and I then a reconfigure reboot.

When it came up I noticed that the files that safe caught were not in the directory with name.new and they were not placed in name.

Can someone explain how safe works when patching with —no-safe.

Thanks

Robert



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