According to Mike Long:
>
>The solution to your troubles is to follow these rules religiously:
>

0) Always backup / & /usr so that you can easily get them back if
something goes wrong.  I back mine up to another HD (my /usr/local)
using dump.  If something does get screwed I can boot from the install
floppy and do a restore of my old configuration.

>1) Always have the COMPAT_ option for the most recent major release in
>   your kernel config.  Since the last major release (i.e. not a patch
>   release) was 1.3, you should have 'options COMPAT_13' in your kernel
>   config.
>2) Rebuild the kernel and reboot before building anything (*) in
>   userland.
>

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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