Just thought I'd share something frustrating with some people that would "get it" - since most people I know would just say "uhh.. what?"
I was trying to reinstall IBM's "ClearCase" - due to massive errors on my first attempt (you'd think for expensive software.. anyway)
Here is the relavent output from their reinstall script.
Well duh. Who is the genius that thought they could mv a directory structure into a subdir of itself? Keep in mind this was a fully default installation, on specifically supported distribution.
Yes, of course I figured out how to get around it quite easily by just moving that stuff myself into another directory.. but.. arrrrrr..
I was trying to reinstall IBM's "ClearCase" - due to massive errors on my first attempt (you'd think for expensive software.. anyway)
Here is the relavent output from their reinstall script.
Shutting down running ClearCase Product Family software.
This will interfere with current users of the installed software.
Running:/opt/rational/clearcase/etc/clearcase stop
Preexisting /var/adm/rational/clearcase/ directory was found.
Purging its contents.
Old contents may be found at /var/adm/rational/clearcase/.preserve
mv: cannot move `/var/adm/rational/clearcase/' to a subdirectory of itself, `/var/adm/rational/clearcase/.preserve'
ERROR: Unable to move /var/adm/rational/clearcase/ to /var/adm/rational/clearcase/.preserve
Well duh. Who is the genius that thought they could mv a directory structure into a subdir of itself? Keep in mind this was a fully default installation, on specifically supported distribution.
Yes, of course I figured out how to get around it quite easily by just moving that stuff myself into another directory.. but.. arrrrrr..
