[GRASS5] Re: i lost this...

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:42:50PM -0600, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:30:08PM -0600, Bruce_Byars at baylor.edu wrote:
> > Of course, comments and questions are welcome.
> Is this intended to also be a development machine for GRASS?
Obviously no: no make and no compiler found.

> Do you have ssh installed? 
Obviously no. :)

Just checked out the machine.
It is a skelleton installation.

It is great that baylor offers this development machine, don't get me
wrong, when I give you some feedback on what is generally needed on the
machine to be useful:


Mail doesn't work for me. 
Who reads the root Mail? (Because root has no home directory.)

The directory module of the webserver is not enabled.

I would need an editor with syntax highlighting, if I edit
any file on this machine. I suggest at least "vim", maybe "jed",
additional candidates: 
"pico" if we have unix beginners and "emacs" if we really want people
to edit files a lot and people need it.

There no is reasonable shell on the machine. I suggest at least "bash".
This should also be the default.

If you want people to use the email features at all, you also should
install a mailfilter (procmail) and a reasonable MUA, I suggest "mutt",
maybe "pine" so that people can mail attachements out.


Right now you can only place files there, even moving them around
interactively or edit them is hard.

	Bernhard
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