Re: A better miscutils
You (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) wrote:
> Guy Maor writes:
> Guy> I'm the maintainer of miscutils, a big and ugly package. Here's a
> Guy> proposal that I would like to implement.
> Guy>
> Guy> I will eliminate two packages - chfn and last.
>
> The last package I split from GNU acct is supposed to be replaced by a new
> binary that would come with sysvinit. Miquel van Smoorenburg once said he
> would do that but I haven't heard from him in a long time.
That's because I've been kicked off debian-devel :) The address used
was that of my personal workstation, and since it goes up and down a lot
some error messafes went back to debian-devel and some robot took me
off. I'll try to re-subscribe. Well at least I am on debian-private.
sysvinit-2.59 does contain a last and a mesg binary. It will be out
this weekend/beginning of next week. This last also supports hostname
lookups by the ut_addr field.
Who is going to maintain chfn? I changed the 1.0-4 version because it
didn't work with NIS. After a chfn I had the entire NIS password database
in my local /etc/passwd :) I'd like to send the patches to the (new?)
maintainer.
Mike.
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