Re: Can texconfig wipeout a harddisk?

[Ryan Scott]

On 14 Jun 2000 20:22:06 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Dear Ryan,
> >
> > > I am trying to find out if it is possible for the texconfig program
> > > within teTeX 1.0.6 to wipe out a hard disk.  Right now it is my
> >
> > Yes, I fear that this is true. Your mail is the second report of such
> > a misbehaviour. George Tourlakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has reported this
> > three months ago (that was on a Nextstep system, too), but we could
> > not find the reason for the misbehaviour.
> >
> > So, if anybody can help, I'd immediately fix texconfig.
>
> I wonder if the people who experienced the problem have a shell that
> uses regular Bourne shell syntax or something similar but different
> (e.g. the Korn shell).

For reference, I was/am using csh as root's shell.

--Ryan Scot