From: Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca)
Date: 12/28/92


From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: Question and Observations
Date: 29 Dec 1992 02:07:49 GMT

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

>I made a mistake when I put together the shadow.taz package:
>I should not have included /etc/passwd in it.

        Should not have been included? Do you mean that there should
not be a /etc/passwd file, or that it shouldn't have overwritten the
one that was there?

>I am doing the best I can with SLS. I can't help the fact
>that minor errors on my part result in extra postings on
>the internet. A hazard of the trade. What you don't see
>are the countless hours I spent collecting and configuring
>the tcpip system, shadow passwords, the install scripts, etc.
>Please be patient and you will be rewarded. But if you need
>a finished product now, try SCO or DELL.

        Sorry...didn't mean to give the impression that I think you
are doing anything less then an excellent job...getting SLS up and
running has been a piece of cake...just some of the tweaking for an
individual site tends to be causing headaches :)

        As for SCO/DELL...NAWT! Cost is too great, considering that
most of the stuff on either I would replace with the much improved
versions that can be found on the net. All I basically have left of
my old OS is the kernel...everything else has been basically replaced :)

        One thing that would be nice to see in the future is some
sort of configuration script that would at least set you up
sitename/domainname wise :) Especially in the tcp/ip package...still
haven't gotten that thing configured correctly :( Or maybe even just a
list of files that have to be changed?

        Thanks Peter...for all of your time.

Marc