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From: bzs@encore.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: New user .login file && a question
Message-ID: <3526@encore.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 16:14:10 GMT
References: <28862@bbn.COM>
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In-reply-to: mesard@bbn.com's message of 23 Aug 88 15:57:41 GMT


Having a new user .login which changes itself into a not-new user
.login seems like a fine idea. What I don't understand is why do you
use all that grepping etc to a tmp file to build the other, why not
just have two .logins (.login and .login.2) and just mv the second
over the first and avoid the fancy dancing (I dunno, someday you'll
hit a full /tmp/ or something.) Seems a mv is a simpler thing, who
cares if they have a bunch of lines in common (in fact, on the first
entry the new-user .login could source the second if that's what you
want, I'd just duplicate them to avoid stuff like having the file
open.)

Occam's lektra-shave or some such.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||