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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: rdisk on NeXT's
Keywords: rdist, NeXT, /etc, /tmp
Message-ID: <17634@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 89 22:00:33 GMT
Reply-To: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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	rdist on the NeXTs seems to want to create it's temporary files
in /etc rather than /tmp for some reason.  This is not only annoying but
it won't work since /etc is usually on a read-only partition.  I'm a
little hesitant to just patch the binary to use /tmp instead of /etc.
This seems like a good example of a place source would be useful-- if
not to fix it, to at least try and understand WHY it is doing it the
way it is.

James Conley
Indiana University Computer Science
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu