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Subject: Re: some things to play with
From: Athanasius (Athanasiusmiggy.org)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 13:37:46 CDT

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:17:49PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> It's still more than a little displeasing that these
> things are looking at argv[0] at all. What does
> chage need it for?

  I'd assume in the given case:

crucigera{pa}390: chage
Usage: chage [ -l ] [ -m min_days ] [ -M max_days ] [ -W warn ]
  [ -I inactive ] [ -E expire ] [ -d last_day ] user
crucigera{pa}391:

i.e. b2 was running it without further arguments, so chage used argv[0]
in that Usage message.

-Ath 

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