From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 30 12:55:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA23043 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:55:46 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22988 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:53:54 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA05448; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:52:30 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA18851; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:52:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA20238; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:42:08 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511302042.VAA20238@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:42:08 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9511301550.AA08552@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Nov 30, 95 10:50:48 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 708 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > >> `calendar -a' needs to die. > > > Why? > > Because it's a bad idea, particular with networked home directories, > but also in general. (If I want the output of `calendar' mailed to > me, I'll set up a cron job to do it myself, or run it from my > .profile.) So we should convert the -a option into another option that would process the calendar file, match the entries for today and tomorrow, and finally print them on stdout. This way, the user is free to use _this_ option in order to mail the output. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)