EDUSERS(1)                                                    General Commands Manual                                                   EDUSERS(1)

NAME

       edusers - edit users list created by package

SYNOPSIS

       edusers [system [version]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  command lets you safely edit the users list created by the package command. It locks the file before launching the editor, hence pro-
       tecting against any concurrent update by some package command that could arrive at the same time (by e-mail). The level of protection  this
       locking buys you depends on the locking policy you have configured in your ~/.mailagent.

       If you are within a package source tree, all you need to say is

            edusers

       to  edit  the  users  file for that package. In order for that particular feature to work properly, the package must have been placed under
       dist control, or at least the packinit command from the dist package must have been run.

       Otherwise, you may specify a system name, and optionally a version number if that is not enough to disambiguate. Using '-' will get you the
       lattest version available.

       In  any  case,  there  must be a proper setting of the distribs file to use this command. If that file is not accurate, the package command
       will not be able to produce a users file anyway.

ENVIRONMENT

       The editor is taken out of the EDITOR variable if defined, then from the VISUAL variable, defaulting to /usr/ae if none of the variables is
       set.

FILES

       ~/.mailagent        configuration file for mailagent.
       Spool/distribs      distribution list, same file as the one used for mailpatch.
       System/.package     file created by dist's packinit command to indicate the root of the source tree for that package.
       System/users        list of users of that system.
       Log/agentlog        mailagent's log file.

AUTHOR

       Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>

SEE ALSO

       mailagent(1), metaconfig(1), package(1), packinit(1).

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