sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman) writes:

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>So, if one is installing a new init for example, what is the "proper"
>way to do it?   Go ahead and then "fsck",  kill init and reboot,
>or what?  I don't quite know what the "being more careful"
>really means here.

I recommend renaming the running files to init.OLD, etc.  Then put the
new versions up.  Then reboot.  At that point the new ones will be
running, so you can rm the old ones.  No file system problems will be
created.