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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 7 05:54:47 2008
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 05:54:09 -0400 (EDT)
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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> I will discuss this at the release team meeting tomorrow and try to
> resolve it then.
Scratch that plan; I'll discuss it in email.
My idea is to introduce some kind of counter which increases every
time we change a preference for new accounts. For lack of a better
term, I'll call this a generation. Currently we are in generation 0,
which is marked by the lack of a .generation file. The components of
this change are, then:
* Install a .generation file containing "1" in /usr/prototype_user
and configure Moira to install it for new accounts.
* In the environment setup of the global cshrc and bashrc, read the
epoch. Set LPROPT to -Zduplex if the epoch is at least 1.
To change this preference, users can just set LPROPT to another value
in their .environment files.
