Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups Message-ID: <1990Aug22.224100.5660@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Aug20.011536.3323@zoo.to <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug22.151531.29862@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 90 22:41:00 GMT In article <1990Aug22.151531.29862@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (arrakis) writes: >>Systems where chown is in some strange place, like /etc, that isn't in the >>default search path. > >I quote from the "build" script in the cnews/conf directory: Build is asking that so it can construct its own shell scripts appropriately... but build already sticks its tentacles into far too many places. I do *not* want to see it editing every shell program we supply! (And that's about what it would take.) Look guys, I'm sorry -- a little -- but fixing everything in C News to catch errors by careless or incompetent sysadmins is way, way down on my list of priorities. It's too much work for too futile an objective. -- Committees do harm merely by existing. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology -Freeman Dyson | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry