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From: era@niwot.ucar.edu
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Subject: double mailings from calendar(1)
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Date: 10 May 89 04:13:42 GMT
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Original-Date: Mon, 1 May 89 16:30:10 MDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 279, message 20 of 23

A while back, I inquired as to whether anyone else had received double
mailings from the calendar(1) program running under 4.0.  As soon as a
sun-spots reader reminded me that /usr/bin/calendar is a shell script, the
source of the problem was obvious.

If you have a server running YP, then /usr/bin/calendar is double-counting
everyone by concatenating YP passwd.byname and /etc/passwd.  You can get
rid of the double mailings by making this change:

27c27
< 	$caldata |cat /etc/passwd - | grep -v '^[+-]' |\
---
> 	$caldata |cat /etc/passwd - | grep -v '^[+-]' | sort | uniq | \

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Ed Arnold * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research) * Mesa Lab
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