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- From: rblander@math.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers)
- Subject: mail startup /etc/rc2.d/S50mail
- Message-ID: <BuDpzI.Gto@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:23:42 GMT
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- In Irix 4.0.x, the mail startup script /etc/rc2.d/S50mail
- contains these lines:
-
- cd /usr/mail
- [...]
- chgrp mail . *
- chmod g+w . *
-
- This doesn't work so well when you have lots of users.
- Too many arguments for * to expand.
-
- We're NFS mounting home directories and mailboxes for oh,
- a few thousand undergrads. :-)
-
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- Robyn Landers rblanders@math.uwaterloo.ca
- Math Faculty Computing Facility
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
-