| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
Prior to V3.0, in the [.LIB_SHARE.USER] directory where all the standard user files live, if you placed any site files there that you wanted propogated for all new users, the MUA_CREATE.COM procedure would grab them all for you and move them, etc. This broke under V3.0. I traced it down to the fact that now MUA_CREATE.COM only copies a hard-coded list of specific files from [.USER] and ignores any other files. What gives?!?!? This is a real headache as we now have to go back and manually copy files to any new accounts we created before we noticed this. I've patched MUA_CREATE.COM to do our files now, but it sure would've been nice to have some warning from engineering when changes of this nature are made. 8^( 2 point penalty and a slap on the wrist for "burning" the field troops. ...and yes, I read p.4-8, sec. 4.2 in the Mgmt Guide and it's doesn't say squat about this change.... -Al
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| 2460.3 | Ooops! | IOSG::SHOVE | Dave Shove -- REO2-G/M6 | Wed Mar 24 1993 17:19 | 21 |
Actually, Al, you're quite right - this was changed between v2.4 and
v3.0
If you look at the code in MUA_CREATE.COM, I think that you can see why
it was changed - it now does a much better job of checking for errors
for each individual file, and giving more specific error messages on
failures. This was something that lots of people asked us for. In fact,
it only copies three files now - the rest are created from FDLs.
The CMS history for this change says:
18-APR-1991 21:41:42 xxxxxx REPLACE MUA_CREATE.COM(11) "Changes for
CM+ and improved logging/notification"
However, it is a pity that the functionality you mention has gone away
(well, I _would_ say that, since I wrote the original code and was
quite proud of that feature!) It's more of a pity that you weren't
warned about it somehow, and that the CART doesn't mention this change.
Sorry (on other folks' behalf),
D.
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| 2460.4 | Phew checked - lucky it wasn't me! | AIMTEC::WICKS_A | Oscar the Grouch is an Optimist! | Wed Mar 24 1993 17:36 | 13 |
Dave,
Of course the change was made to fix a bug which was potentially more
serious than the one Al is experiencing so it really was a step in
the right direction - even though the original MUA_CREATE was of course
incredibly totally perfect!
P.S You have the incorrect number of XXX's in place of the person's
name in the CMS change (:==:)
regards,
Andrew.D.Wicks
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| 2460.5 | So get both | IOSG::TALLETT | Gimmee an Alpha colour notebook... | Mon Apr 05 1993 16:17 | 6 |
Well how about doing a loop with F$SEARCH to get the best of
both worlds?
Regards,
Paul
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