Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!mips!dce 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 Lines: 29 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