[2034] in Athena Bugs
/urvd/etc/edquota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Tue Apr 4 22:57:28 1989
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 22:57:09 EDT
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
On at least these platforms: VAX up to at least 6.0R, RT 6.1C
/usr/etc/edquota does not perform as advertized.
> SYNOPSIS
> edquota [ -e editor ] [ -p proto-user ] users...
>
> -e The next argument is the name of the editor to invoke
> to edit the temporary file. If this flag is not used,
> edquota will invoke the editor defined by the EDITOR
> environment variable. If there is no EDITOR environ-
> ment variable, edquota invokes emacs (1).
While in reality:
poseidon% /usr/etc/edquota -e /bin/ed 10993
-e: no such user
/bin/ed: no such user
[Using open mode]
[[Note: At this point, the user is in "vi", of all things, which is
hard-coded into the program.]]
