clever ruse
William L. Sebok
wls at astrovax.UUCP
Mon Dec 10 06:21:51 AEST 1984
> Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the
> annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does.
> Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null!
That reminds me of the time when we had two system managers here. One got
annoyed about the other's long messages of the day. He fixed it by making
/etc/motd a link to /dev/null. Ever try to edit /dev/null?
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Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics
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