Setting up Home dirs...

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <1990Sep20.141822.26387 at cs.utk.edu>, de5 at de5.ctd.ornl.gov
(Dave Sill) writes:
> In article <1990Sep20.053541.18081 at cs.utk.edu>,
moore at betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes:
> 
> >This version of calendar also does "ypcat passwd" instead of reading
> >the /etc/passwd file, so it scans directories for every user in the
entire
> >passwd map...we have to make sure that only one system in the entire
> >"cluster" runs calendar, else things slow down to a crawl.  We run
it
> >on our mail server, since the mail that calendar generates will end
up
> >there anyway.
> 
> Again, I show my ignorance.  What's this "calendar" program?

Presumably he's talking about the calendar(1) reminder service
program.  It's been in System V since at least V.2.0, and in BSD
since at least 4.2.  It probably goes back to v7 or earlier.
Consult your local manual set.

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