Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 07:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/15227: New option for vacation(1) -- dir to use instead of $HOME Message-ID: <199912031540.HAA61137@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/15227; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/15227: New option for vacation(1) -- dir to use instead of $HOME Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:30:24 -0500 (EST) Sheldon Hearn once stated: =On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:14:38 EST, Mikhail Teterin wrote: = => >Synopsis: New option for vacation(1) -- dir to use instead of $HOME = =Hmmm, would it not be more flexible to add to vacation two options for =specifying alternative .vacation.db and .vacation.msg files? If so, =would you be interested in submitting a patch for _that_ instead? :-) I thought about this, and figured this is less intrusive, there is less of a chance to overstep the option names used by vacation on other systems, and this gives just as much flexibility -- with symbolic links you can share the messages and/or databases as you wish. Also, this is the directory it chdir()s to. If, oh no, it dies -- this is where it will leave core, or whatever else the future modifications will do to it. Even if someone wants to add the options to specify the file locations separately in the future, this one should, IMHO, still be there. Since the potential users will likely keep the related files (mailing list archives, mailboxes, killfiles, etc.) in the same directory as well, I think this is enough. Uhm? Yours, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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