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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Tue Apr 15 17:40:28 2008
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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We'd only want duplex to be the default for newly registered accounts
(i.e. no change to the behavior of existing accounts/users that source
the global dotfiles). It was my impression that /usr/athena/lib/init/
cshrc got sourced by every existing account that wasn't explicitly
configured not to. Am I misremembering that?
Oliver
On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
>>> However, I am still not clear on who would actually implement a
>>> change to the prototype dotfiles. Is that part of the release to
>>> update a prototype set of files? Is it something that needs to be in
>>> the AFS volume creation scripts moira runs?
>
> From a technical standpoint, I believe what needs to happen is for the
> change to be made to /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc, which is part of the
> release. Moira has private copies of the files that normally exist in
> /usr/prototype_usr/ on Athena workstations, so if any changes are made
> to those, I'd need to update Moira's copies for them to take effect,
> but
> as far as I know, past practice has been to put as much of the global
> environment setup as possible in the files in /usr/athena/lib/init,
> although I'm sure Greg will chime in if I've misrepresented what we've
> generally done.
>
> Garry
