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Re: sgi 8.1.0: moira locker apps

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri May 30 16:57:37 1997

To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 May 1997 16:27:09 EDT."
             <199705302027.QAA07137@mad-scientist.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:57:30 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but does this count
> as reasonable?

> PATH=/mit/moira/arch/sgi_53/bin:$PATH; export PATH
> exec moira "$@"

I've thought about this.  I'm very wary of it because if for some
reason "moira" looks executable but doesn't show up in the path, we
get really bad behavior.  That might happen if, say,
/mit/moira/arch/sgi_53/bin/moira were to become system:anyuser l.

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