[6] in Locker Maintainers
Re: locker redirection scripts [was: xmcd]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Tue Nov 25 13:15:01 1997
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
Cc: locker-maintainers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:14:53 EST
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:07:23 EST "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU> writes
|>
|> > Bleah! Forcing people to "add -f" a locker sucks. The script should
|> > check if the user already has sipb in their path and run the binary
|> > from there without saying anything if they do.
|> >
|> > If someone feels inspired to write a standard locker redirection
|> > script template, we can put it somewhere nice and canonical, like
|> > maybe the `lockers' locker.
|>
|> This doesn't seem like it would be so difficult (no, no, no, I'm
|> absolutely not volunteering to do anything at all...yet).
|>
|> What features would people want in such a script?
|>
|> The ability to automatically start the next same-named binary in the
|> path? The ability to start a particular binary if the appropriate
|> locker is attached? The ability to attach the appropriate locker?
|> Other stuff?
|>
|> + R
|>
I wrote a simple perl script that does something like this.
The script is available as /mit/bdrosen/arch/common/bin/locker-redirect .
(it could probably use some more work)
Brett
