gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (12/08/84)
Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does. Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null!
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (12/09/84)
> Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the > annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does. > Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null! That reminds me of the time when we had two system managers here. One got annoyed about the other's long messages of the day. He fixed it by making /etc/motd a link to /dev/null. Ever try to edit /dev/null? -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls
ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (12/12/84)
In article <6493@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes: >Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the >annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does. >Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null! We just changed the code so that instead of appending to ~/author_copy it would write it over. This way only the last message is kept in this file. The change is very simple: just change the mode in the xfopen call from "a" (append) to "w" (write). -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell