Error, but uname -r give different indications

[Alan]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:42:48 +0200
"Peter Lauri" <lists at dwsasia.com> wrote:

> Yes now it works, it is starting to update. However, new problem:
> 
> warning: /etc/passwd created as /etc/passwd.rpmnew
> warning: /usr/lib/security/classpath.security created as
> /usr/lib/security/classpath.security.rpmnew
> warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth created as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew
> 
> What does that actually mean? Could I just copy the passwd to passwd.bak and
> then rename passwd.rpmnew to passwd? And same for the others?

When rpm finds a configuration file has been updated it creates the new
one as .rpmnew rather than stomping on the old one. This is usually the
right thing to do as you don't for example want it to remove all your
users and passwords by replacing them with a new empty password file...