From: spedraja@gmail.com (SPC)
Subject: [TUHS] User maintained programs in the Second Edition
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:28:57 +0100 [thread overview]
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2016-12-22 10:22 GMT+01:00 Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net>:
> Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone remember whether at the time these were installed in the
>> system-wide /bin directory, or whether they were only available in their
>> owners' home directories?
>
> From what I remember from a talk from Stephen Bourne at a Sun user group
> meeting in 1990, user maintained programs have been installed in /usr/bin.
>
> Stephen Bourne after some time wrote a cron job that checked whether an update
> in a binary also resulted in an updated man page and otherwise removed the
> binary. This is why these programs have man pages.
>
> Jörg
>
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> URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
Impressive. Everything has a reason, that's clear. A primitive but
more or less effective security measure for new software installations
:-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-22 7:27 Diomidis Spinellis
2016-12-22 9:22 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-12-22 9:28 ` SPC [this message]
2016-12-22 16:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-12-23 2:28 Doug McIlroy
2016-12-23 9:37 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-12-23 10:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-12-23 16:57 ` Clem Cole
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