Hi,
>>"Mark" == Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 12:14:45PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava
Mark> wrote:
>> No progrom should ever send things off machine by itself like
>> this. Mind you, I am not objecting to the ip-up.d scripts: all I am
>> asking for is an ip.conf file in /etc/ppp where all these scripts
>> look for permission.
Mark> No, that's stupid. I'd much rather edit the ip-up.d scripts
Mark> directly rather than have yet another config file.
Stupid in unnecassarily pejorative.
You are a developer. You write scripts. You edit them without
any trepidation. You are also thinking of just one package.
I want to know what scripts are on without having to look at
and understand what the script is doing. I may not know how to edit
shell or perl. I do not want a gazzillion conffiles in /etc/ppp/ip*.d/
I can do cat /etc/ppp/ip.conf to see exactly which scripts are
on or off. I can edit a file and type in
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exim UP=YES
slrn UP=NO
-------------------
even if I do not know shell or perl or C (who says stuff in there has
to be a shell script only?)
Tell me, are you seriously suggesting a novice edit the script
below? Is Debian a distribution for the Eleeet (or is it 3l3333t?)?
Stupid people need not apply? We refise to make anything accesible to
people who can't code?
And people jump on me when I say the *developers* need to be
able to code shell scripts? And we insist on users doing so? Faugh.
manoj
incensed
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# Source config file.
. /etc/slrnget.conf
# If term is not set to something sane, slrn gets upset.
TERM=vt100
export TERM
# Make sure the umask is sane as well.
umask 022
# Update descriptions.
if [ "$GETDESC_WITH_PPP" = "y" ] ; then
/usr/sbin/slrn_getdescs >/dev/null
fi
# Fetch news.
if [ "$USE_SLRNPULL" = "y" -a "$SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP" = "y" ] ; then
# Get new articles.
slrnpull -h `cat /etc/nntpserver` >/dev/null
fi
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