Subject: Re: PMAD-AA
To: None <erh@nimenees.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/02/2000 18:14:03
>> IT WAS MY FAULT !!!
>> I edited the file ifconfig.le1 with the editor "joe" !
>> I found out that you have to hit "return" after the inserted line in the file
>> that the cusor is in the next new line!
>> OTHERWISE IFCONFIG WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING !!!
>
>	That seems like it should work, but read returns failure as soon
>as it hits EOF, even if it has read some text in.  Fix: check for non-empty
>args to use for ifconfig after the end of the loop.  (I'll do this)

personally, i think it would just be better to put joe on the list of
editors a sysadmin should not use.  like pico, which likes to linewrap
everything for you to make your sendmail.cf look "prettier".  :)

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