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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)
Message-ID: <2357@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 06:18:14 GMT
References: <2328@flatline.UUCP> <29@tons61.UUCP> <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <2352@flatline.UUCP> <9338@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <9338@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <2352@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>"\!" is how you type a "!" when you're using /bin/ksh.  The "!"
>>alone is a command for the shell, so you have to escape it.
>Perhaps you mean csh.  Typing ! at ksh gives:
> /bin/ksh: !:  not found

Yep.  You're correct.  I meant csh.


Also, I solved the problem.  It was a typo I'd made along the lines
of:

MACHINE=foo \
[various permissions] \
#                     ^ --  Here's the problem!

MACHINE=BAR
[various *different* permissions]


As I understand it, this caused uucp to read bar's permissions in
as well, and used those instead of the permissions I'd declared
for foo.  At least I *think* that's what happened.  I know it
worked when I removed the "\" after foo's permissions.

-- 
Good ole' boys,               J. Eric Townsend
tellin' lies,            unet!sugar!flatline!erict com6@uhnix1.uh.edu
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I got wise. -- B-52's.