grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (01/09/90)
This one doesn't show up in the release notes:
1) When you install the 3.1C tape, what used to be /usr/new/csh is installed
as /bin/csh (presumably because of the quoting problems with the 3.x csh).
This is the version that has command completion, command line retrieval/
editing and idle autologout.
It seems to work pretty well as /bin/csh, but you may want to warn your
users that funny things will happen if they type escape and that they
have to put "unset autologout" in their .login files if they want to
disable the auto-logout.
You may also want to create a link from /usr/new/csh to /bin/csh for
compatibility's sake.
2) As in prevous 3.x releases, /bin/mail is actually a link to /usr/bin/mail.
If users have /usr/bin before /usr/ucb in their search path, they will
get the wrong version of mail.
To avoid this, you can either fix all their .xyz files or move mail
either back to /bin or perhpaps to /usr/etc.
--
George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) (01/10/90)
> 1) When you install the 3.1C tape, what used to be /usr/new/csh is installed > as /bin/csh ... > It seems to work pretty well as /bin/csh, but you may want to warn your > users that funny things will happen if they type escape and that they > have to put "unset autologout" in their .login files if they want to > disable the auto-logout. I think they want to set autologout to 0 (set autologout=0), otherwise it takes a default (2 hours?) Fred
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (01/10/90)
In article <2871@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: > > > 1) When you install the 3.1C tape, what used to be /usr/new/csh is installed > > as /bin/csh ... > > > It seems to work pretty well as /bin/csh, but you may want to warn your > > users that funny things will happen if they type escape and that they > > have to put "unset autologout" in their .login files if they want to > > disable the auto-logout. > > I think they want to set autologout to 0 (set autologout=0), otherwise > it takes a default (2 hours?) Gee Fred, no faith... Either works - each time /usr/new/csh (aka csh here) starts up, it sets autologout to 60. Either setting it to zero or unsetting it disables the autologout feature. Note that it doesn't get inherited, so it seems that you really want to put it in your .chsrc rather than .login as I suggested the first time around... Obviously, this implementation is a leetle bit questionable... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
frank@croton.enet.dec.COM (Frank Wortner) (01/10/90)
In article <9247@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes: [Regarding the possibility of invoking the "wrong" mail program if /usr/bin is searched before /usr/ucb ...] > To avoid this, you can either fix all their .xyz files or move mail > either back to /bin or perhpaps to /usr/etc. It is easier to move mail to /bin than to /usr/etc. If you do, change the link in /bin to point to the new location. The delivered /etc/sendmail.cf has mail being /bin/mail, /usr/ucb/Mail (a.k.a. /usr/ucb/mail) believes that mail lives in /bin, and I'm sure that there are other programs that assume they "know" where mail lives. Frank