On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:35 -0600, Will Fiveash wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:26:25PM +0100, Mark Phalan wrote:
...
> > If we went with a single-letter option one of the following might be
> > suitable:
> > 
> > -F
> > -y
> > -n
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts? I'm leaning towards "-y". Whatever we choose I'd like to
> > bring it to MIT to see if they'll also support it so at least going
> > forward there will be more compatibility.
> 
> I pick -y 

Ok. Shawn: any objections?

> however unless we can convince MIT to change their interface
> match ours then I don't think it's worth changing the Solaris kdb5_util
> interface.

I'd definitely like MIT to take the new option.

>   If one wants to do a non-interactive kdb5_util destroy then
> either:
> 
> echo yes|kdb5_util destroy
> 
> or
> 
> kdb5_util destroy <<EOF
> yes
> EOF
> 
> or
> 
> yes|kdb5_util destroy
> 
> can be used.

True, although having an option built-in is just better in my book.

-M


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