I often ask that question myself, but many times when the files are sum'd they are still old files and we find them all over the file structure. We've been asked many times to make it fool proof...so we use the typical IA install approach, which most times also backs up the original files, which many forget to consider. If we only wrote QF's and tech notes for the users on this list, a lot of things could be done differently, however you would be amazed at some of the corners many of our users back themselves into on a daily basis. There are users installing QF's that don't know what "tar" is. -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Milum Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:54 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Software Install workaround? On 10/26/05, Boulay, Russ <russ.boulay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also the standard procedure eliminates the human error as many users in t= he > past tar to the wrong directory and then report that the QF didn't fix th= eir > problem. if the tar file uses absolute paths, how do they untar to the wrong directories? We did this one via our own script becuase it was taking about 20 min to do each wp remotely. That would have taken us 6 hours total to do every station. It took about an hour to read the install_wp script in the QF, create my own, test it, and then run it on every station. So we saved 5 hrs. Now I just need to restart all the FoxViews, but I have a script for that too howvere that takes a bit more coordination w/ each control room ;) -- Patron saints in general are broadband connections to the Almighty - Michelle Delio, Wired News _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave