chown (was: at files and permissions)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <JGREELY.89Jul12135552 at oz.cis.ohio-state.edu>, jgreely at oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
> (Does that imply that cops burn honest citizens?)  

Cops have been known to hassle honest citizens. I know a guy who was charged
with assaulting a police officer. He was lucky, the judge was smart enough to
realise that he wasn't quite stupid enough to throw a punch with five other
policemen standing by.

> More than once, I *have* felt like a cop, tracking down an anonymous grad
> student who logs in once a week, doesn't read his mail, and has a ten
> meg file named thesis-proj.out.  Should I delete it?  Compress it?
> Dump it to tape?

Under OS-1100 on the Unisys 1100/70 here that file would be automatically
checkpointed to tape. And restored when needed. A MUCH better solution.

You shouldn't try to apply minicomputer solutions to mainframe problems.

>   And of course, not everyone who drastically exceeds their quota is a
> "bad boy".

No, but someone who chowns his files to hide them from the quota system
is.
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