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Re: Workspace Disk Eject bug: Workaround available from NeXT

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:53
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In article <1b5874INNok@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:


!   However (and the main reason for this post) is that I discovered
!   that the fix only applies to the user who launched the daemom, since
!   that daemon changes the defaults database for just that user.  Even
!   if the user is root.  So, you can put it in /usr/local/bin or maybe
!   /LocalApps, but you have to have every user run it once to set the
!   Workspace default.  Or maybe you could write something to go do the
!   dwrite's automatically.  Or maybe NeXT will make a more global fix.
!   (I sent this comment to Matt Watson.)

Would launching the daemon from rc.local be a solution? (I would guess
not, since it affects the Workspace.app --- or whatever it's called). 
Alternatively, could one put it in every users .login? 

--
Hardy 
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Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
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