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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: /usr/share/skel - make world writes into it
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Every time I'm building a world on one of my machines it clobbers
the dotfiles in /usr/share/skel which are shared in our NIS/YP
environment. Each of the 10 PCs mounts /usr/share -root=0 from our
NFS/NIS server. When I build world on one of the clients which 
happens to be a PPRO and makes world building a fun otherwise.
Could this be changed in that make world leaves the existing files
there untouched. Or is there another way to protect an individual setup?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de