[19870] in Athena Bugs

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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Fri Oct 5 17:48:41 2001

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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:48:28 +0000 (   )
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
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% add gnu
% cvs admin -kb *
cvs [admin aborted]: usage is restricted to members of the group cvsadmin

Sent to bugs, because arguably it's a bug in the Athena environment
that the cvsadmin moira group exists, causing this behavior.

Sent to gnu, because arguably it's a bug in the gnu locker that the cvs
installation there checks this silly precondition.

--Chris

-- 
[The scientist-wizard Ponder] turned to the others with the agonized
expression of a man who has the whole great whirring machinery of the
Universe to dismantle and only a bent paper clip to do it with.
	-- Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
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