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From: dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: To . or not to .
Message-ID: <988@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 10:16:15 EST
Article-I.D.: quacky.988
Posted: Wed Nov 25 10:16:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 02:09:52 EST
References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9171@mimsy.UUCP> <2732@umix.cc.umich.edu> <2204@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <2204@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:

[discussion of network filesystem path preferences deleted]
>
>Urph - I copy the Same Old .cshrc file from one system to another.  Last
>night I noticed that the /.cshrc file (for root) had the line
>
>set path=(/bin /usr/bin /etc /usr/local/bin /usr/games $home/bin)
>
>Which is the path I've used for several years.  What's going to happen to
>when I finally have the (mis)fortune to work on one of these network
>machines?

If the system administrator on the system has any kind of talent at
all, you won't have to do a single thing! In other words, if it's
misfortunate, it's application, not service, at fault.

I use the same .cshrc and .login that I used before we had NFS or /n
here, and I can continue to do so.

As an example, we only have one copy of /usr/games on our Mips M-series
BSD machines (on the host quacky), and everyone else has a symbolic link to
/n/quacky/usr/games. When I rlogin to another machine and execute, for
example, fortune, I get it. I don't have to change my path to include
/n/quacky/usr/games.

The biggest problems with network filesystems are not generally found
at the user's level, they are in administration.
-- 
David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!dce