[21848] in Athena Bugs
Re: Why is update_ws in /etc/athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 18 02:21:16 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: jhawk@mit.edu
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 18 Apr 2003 02:21:13 -0400
update_ws belongs in /etc/athena because it's a command only executed by
root, and that's where we put most of those commands. (Or in
/usr/athena/etc; the distinction between the two is less interesting now
that we don't have system packs. I note that /usr/athena/etc is in the
default user path, but I'm not sure why.)
You're only supposed to run update_ws from a console login, not from an
su, in order to minimize bad interactions with the X server or other
software run during a user login. Running it from a remote login is
also okay, of course.
