Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.224100.5660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <RGA59O9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <1990Aug20.011536.3323@zoo.to <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug22.151531.29862@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 90 22:41:00 GMT

In article <1990Aug22.151531.29862@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (arrakis) writes:
>>Systems where chown is in some strange place, like /etc, that isn't in the
>>default search path.
>
>I quote from the "build" script in the cnews/conf directory:

Build is asking that so it can construct its own shell scripts
appropriately... but build already sticks its tentacles into far too many
places.  I do *not* want to see it editing every shell program we supply!
(And that's about what it would take.)

Look guys, I'm sorry -- a little -- but fixing everything in C News to
catch errors by careless or incompetent sysadmins is way, way down on
my list of priorities.  It's too much work for too futile an objective.
-- 
Committees do harm merely by existing. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                       -Freeman Dyson  |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
