newest up2date quota will erase files

Clint Bowen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I ran into a little problem today and wanted to warn everyone else.  
Upgrading the "quota" package will overwrite /etc/quotagrpadmins and 
/etc/quotatab.  /etc/warnquota.conf is unaffected.


I ran up2date today and updated a long list of packages.  This afternoon 
I receive an email from warnquota:

warnquota: Administrator for a group PUBL not found. Cancelling mail.

upon checking the /etc/quotagrpadmins file, I see it is empty except for:
    users: root
    mygroup: chief
and has a date stamp of Oct. 13th, 2005, as does /etc/quotatab (which 
has incorrect information as well). 

I downgraded from quota-3.10-8 (new today) to quota-3.10-7 (which I 
assume I was running previously) and copied my "real" 
/etc/quotagrpadmins file back in place.  I then ran up2date again, and 
confirmed that upgrading to quota-3.10-8 overwrote /etc/quotagrpadmins 
and /etc/quotatab, and DID NOT save any copies as rpmsave.  I can 
confirm it was working properly before the upgrade.

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