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From: "Grant" <1@2.3>
Subject: Re: .kermrc initialization file
Message-ID: <Vx2H4.101$Td7.11288@sapphire.mtt.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:01:57 GMT
Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
I actually require the users to access the global .kermrc file, but I do not
have it in /usr/local/bin. I will give it a try. Thanks.
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:8cic5n$gu9$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
> In article <1Z1H4.91$Td7.9173@sapphire.mtt.net>, Grant <1@2.3> wrote:
> : I have installed Kermit 7.0.196 (binary) on my SCO OpenServer 5.0.5
server.
> : Upon testing and check columbia's website, I have discovered that I
require
> : .kermrc within everyone's home directory. How can I work around this so
> : that I only have one global .kermrc other than the fact of compiling
source
> : version to reflect this change?
> :
> The .kermrc file is not required unless you want everybody to have dialing
> directories and services directories, etc, set up. Since most people
don't
> use these, forcing them to execute the rather lengthy standard .kermrc
file
> subjects them to an annoying delay and a number of extraneous messages.
>
> The setup I would recommend instead is to install a copy of the standard
> initialization file in the same directory as the Kermit executable, e.g.
>
> /usr/local/bin/kermit
> /usr/local/bin/kermrc
>
> Give it the same owner, group, and permissions as Kermit itself, and
change
> the top line from:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/kermit
>
> to reflect the actual path of the Kermit executable if it is not the one
> shown.
>
> Then when users type "kermit", they get bare Kermit, and it starts
quickly.
> When they type "kermrc" they get Kermit with all the dialing and services
> directories defined.
>
> - Frank