[3485] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Users using dash interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carter Snowden)
Thu Sep 12 09:48:48 2002
From: Carter Snowden <csnowden@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, owls@mit.edu
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Date: 12 Sep 2002 09:48:44 -0400
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With this kind of numbers, it seems this may be a good time to consider
decomissioning dash. Are there compelling reasons to keep it around
despite the low usage? Our group hasn't had a dash-related
question/complaint/comment/request for a long,long time, 'long,long'
being at least a year. I can check records to get a more exact date, but
I know there's been nothing at all in the past year.
CS
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 22:28, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I count seven people using the dash interface:
>
> equal-rites% pwd
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user
> equal-rites% ls */*/*/.athena_dash_interface > /tmp/out
> equal-rites% wc -l /tmp/out
> 7 /tmp/out
> equal-rites% ls other/*/.athena_dash_interface
> ls: No match.
>
> Four of the seven are IS staff in Athena-related groups; the other
> three are listed as undergrads in mitdir (two of them seniors, the
> other indeterminate).
>
> There may be others who either have non-world-listable homedirs, or
> are using the environment variable instead of the dotfile, or are
> setting the login option each time. But it sounds like the customer
> base for dash is in the single or low double digits.
