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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Tips and Techniques...
- In-Reply-To: lwall@netlabs.com's message of 11 Sep 92 17:03:04 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:14:28 GMT
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- LW> == Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com>
- RLS> == merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
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- RLS> Or maybe the text (so far) of the new book. (NOT!)
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- LW> Postfix Operators Considered Harmful
-
- They're often useful for disabling "magic names" (/var/yp,
- /usr/ucb/quota, etc). Wayne and Garth's System Administration Tip #1 is
- to use .NOT as a handy suffix:
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- mv /etc/defaultdomain /etc/defaultdomain.NOT
- mv /var/yp /var/yp.NOT
- mv /usr/ucb/quota /usr/ucb/quota.NOT; ln -s /bin/true /usr/ucb/quota
-
- and so on.
-
- /sbin/perl -e 'print "Just another single-user mode Perl hacker,\n";'
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