From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown
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Date: Fri,  7 Oct 2005 11:49:35 -0400
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> i was going to warn at the time against typing the wrong name in
> sdXX but realised that might have an effect similar to saying
> ``don't think of an elephant'

A couple times I have wondered if it would make sense to
chmod the .../data files once services are running...
or maybe they should start off non-writable and startups
should embody a pattern like this?

 chmod 664 /dev/sdC0/fossil
 fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil
 chmod 444 /dev/sdC0/fossil

Dave Eckhardt