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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:00:28 -0400
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> I'm afraid to contradict you, but /mail and /usr is not
> necessarily on the same file system.  And more, this should
> be relevant to the cron directory too.

Good point, but I'd respectfully point out that in that case, it wouldn't
really matter.  In maybe the most common case, /mail and /usr are on the
same filesystem, so creating them at the same time wouldn't hurt anything
and might help some.  Perhaps a good solution would be to make the newuser
command somewhat scriptable, so it could create directories and the like
on the appropriate filesystems all at once.  Or maybe add a small script
function or macro facility to the command interpreter on the filesystem
console.  But then, we're getting pretty close to something like a real
shell.

	- Dan C.