[258] in testers
Re: new named available for testing
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 10 15:34:04 1989
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, testers-announce@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Sending mail without telling the user
As suggested by mar, I ran "/afs/testers/src/named/installnamed" to
install the experimental named on my workstation.
When it finished, it sent mail to mar. Without telling me.
I don't like this. I thought we already decided that a shell script
sending mail without notifying the person running the script is a Bad
Thing. That's why the functionality was removed from the olc_answers
program.
If it had told me it was notifying someone that I installed the new
named, I would have no problem with it. As it is now, the only reason
I knew was because of the sendmail syslog messages that got zwrote to
me when I ran the script.
Please fix this script to either (a) not send mail or (b) tell the
person running it that it is sending mail. Thank you.
jik
