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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Get a user's current directory
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.212001.6823@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 23 Dec 90 21:20:01 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.184617.8685@cs.widener.edu> <FRIEDMAN.90Dec23020409@wookumz.ai.mit.edu>
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friedman@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:

>In article <1990Dec21.184617.8685@cs.widener.edu> brendan@CS.WIDENER.EDU (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>>  Towards even better system management, this will let you find out
>>what directories your users are sitting in.

>   I can't imagine why anyone would want to use this unless they are
>either incredibly nosy and have nothing better to do or they are so
>paranoid they should have their head examined. Better system
>management indeed. 

there is a need for that indeed. if you have lots of file systems
and users and you want to unmount one of the file systems for
backup etc you might get (i.e.) '/usr/local busy'. unless you can find out
who is using /usr/local you'll have fun asking all users to get off
of it.
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