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Re: /usr/bin/weather

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Jan 20 15:18:19 1999

To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 15:18:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: Erik Nygren's message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:38:11 EST"

Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Under 5.2, /usr/bin/weather exists and points to a weather
> server that doesn't exist.  However, it ends up in peoples' paths
> before weather from other lockers.  I'm not sure what we want
> to do about this, if anything.  I've heard complaints about
> this on 4.2 machines as well and hadn't thought too hard about it
> until I recently got inspired to look into it...

I have a version of the script with a fixed server name; that version
works fine, but is incompatible with the one in the weather locker.
We're in basically the same situation here as with lastlog.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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