[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Don't forget that there *are* presently ways to avoid stating all the
> remote cells. If the "ls" command is not passed the "-F" or "-l"
> option, it won't try to stat all the directory entries. Since I have
> an alias for "ls -F", I make it a habit to use "\ls /afs" when I need
> to look at the top level of AFS. (The backslash is a way of stepping
> around the alias in the c-shell.)
>
> It's not the world's greatest solution, but it does the job and it
> doesn't require that I restructure my /afs directory.
It does the job for you (an individual, and one who is a far cry from being
a unix-newbie).
It is of no use in solving the problem originally mentioned, where new users
(ones who also have that alias) do an "ls /afs" just to see what is there.
Someone else has setup their shell configuration files with the alias, so
all the *average* user knows is that this particular "ls" command takes an
awfully long time.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
