Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: chown (was: at files and permissions) Message-ID: <4995@ficc.uu.net> Date: 13 Jul 89 22:26:58 GMT References: <1894@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <669@lzaz.ATT.COM> <8072@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 28 In article , jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: > (Does that imply that cops burn honest citizens?) Cops have been known to hassle honest citizens. I know a guy who was charged with assaulting a police officer. He was lucky, the judge was smart enough to realise that he wasn't quite stupid enough to throw a punch with five other policemen standing by. > More than once, I *have* felt like a cop, tracking down an anonymous grad > student who logs in once a week, doesn't read his mail, and has a ten > meg file named thesis-proj.out. Should I delete it? Compress it? > Dump it to tape? Under OS-1100 on the Unisys 1100/70 here that file would be automatically checkpointed to tape. And restored when needed. A MUCH better solution. You shouldn't try to apply minicomputer solutions to mainframe problems. > And of course, not everyone who drastically exceeds their quota is a > "bad boy". No, but someone who chowns his files to hide them from the quota system is. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | Th-th-th-that's all folks... Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | -- Mel Blanc Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | May 30 1908 - Jul 10 1989