[383] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AFS & UFS protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Nov 7 23:40:30 1991
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 91 22:50:15 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@athena.mit.edu>
To: CCANDREW%USTHK.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Cc: Liz_Hines@transarc.com, info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: CCANDREW%USTHK.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu's message of Thu, 7 Nov 1991 11:57 HKT,
We've just released AFS to production at HKUST not long ago.
I have a user who doesn't want to stay under AFS anymore. His reason
is that he wants to let others read his .mailrc but protect his .newsrc
from reading by others, and he doesn't want to spend additional effort
of copying these files to another directory (with "read" enabled) every
time when these files are updated. Does anybody has any idea of how we can
resolve this problem ? Or any work around that will be transparent to
the user ?
Well, the version of rn we use at Project Athena accepts an
environment variable "DOTDIR" which it uses in place of $HOME if
$DOTDIR is set. Before I switched to reading news through "gnus", I
used the following csh alias:
alias rrn '(setenv DOTDIR ~/news; \rrn -d~/news \!*)'
The -d flag sets the default save directory, which I have as "news"
instead of "News" because I prefer monocase path names).
Bill Sommerfeld
Hewlett Packard - CCD East
sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com.
(and occasional news admin at MIT).
