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 protecting 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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