> > Hoping this goes w/o saying, but the obvious solution is to NOT break
> > existing scripts that call this.
>
> How about FREEZING the old kas, pts, vos, and bos command suites as
> they are, with all their terrible syntax, stdout, stderr, and return
> codes, and ADDING new suites with different names that have
> user-friendly syntax, parseable output, useful error messages, and
> meaningful return codes?
This would be fine with me, as my main complaint with the suites is
the entire way they are arranged. At this site, and I would presume at
most sites, it does not make sense to say "releasing a volume and
having root on the AFS server should be equivilant."
I have made perl scripts w/ kerberos that act as replacements for the
suite commands, so that access can be controled on a per-action
level. Unless Transarc wants to make a real change to things, I dont
really care to see any changes. Certainly not in something as trivial
as argument order.
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