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Grex Info Item 187: How to DEL an entery in a conf? Help a layman....PLease.
Entered by marcin on Sun Nov 20 21:28:34 UTC 1994:

I am new to this fine BBs of the name Grex, but I have established some 
enteries that exhausted all of its possible responses. I would like  to erase

them somehow because they finished their useful life. How can I do it?

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by robh on Sun Nov 20 22:19:07 1994:

Please don't delete them!  Conferences stay around
for a long time, and there may be people later on who will want to
read your items.

If you really really want to, though, type "kill" at the
"Respond or pass?" prompt.

But I seriously think you shouldn't.

#2 of 14 by remmers on Sun Nov 20 22:55:19 1994:

"Kill" is for deleting whole items, not individual responses.
And the person who entered an item can't kill it if anybody
else has responded to it.

A person can "expurgate" any response they've made, but it's
usually a bad idea to do so.

#3 of 14 by marcin on Sun Nov 20 23:03:58 1994:

Thanx. I have one more question: is it OK to have two accounts on Grex?
My problem is that I changed some attributes on .plan and .profile files on 
my first account. Now when i try to connect under that account it says :
"/u/myoldlogin/.profile not found" and disconnects.
How can I change the files' attributes from the second account or how can i
erase the faulty account.
                                        thanx Pawel

#4 of 14 by popcorn on Mon Nov 21 07:23:31 1994:

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#5 of 14 by srw on Tue Nov 22 07:49:32 1994:

I looked at your other account, Pawel. The problem was that your perms
were 000 on your .profile and .plan. I change them back to 0600,
which means you can read/write them, but no one else can see them.
You should be able to log in again. If you want to get rid of an account,
send mail to staff as Valerie suggested.

#6 of 14 by davel on Wed Nov 23 02:43:09 1994:

Re #4: Not quite.  Your .profile (or .login) being inaccessible wouldn't
stop you from using su to temporarily become your other uid & reset the
perms.  (I'm not sure if a .cshrc with bad perms would be a major problem.)
Now, if you reset the perms on your home dir to not allow access as well ... 
and then ...

#7 of 14 by peacefrg on Wed Nov 23 03:08:36 1994:

How long does it take to get your membership deleted. Because I just want to
change my login and plan.

#8 of 14 by popcorn on Wed Nov 23 05:08:44 1994:

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#9 of 14 by robh on Wed Nov 23 12:12:19 1994:

And that's a little bit easier then getting your whole account
deleted.  Imagine selling your car and buying a new one because
you wanted to change the radio to a different station...

#10 of 14 by rcurl on Wed Nov 23 14:25:11 1994:

We used to trade 'em in when the ashtray was full, but it doesn't fill
up any more, so I have ca. 120,000 miles on my current ashtray.

#11 of 14 by robh on Wed Nov 23 23:58:33 1994:

Another benefit gained by not smoking.  >8)

#12 of 14 by tsty on Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 1994:

The gastank, what about the gastank?

#13 of 14 by nephi on Fri Dec 9 07:23:22 1994:

Why should you want to change you car when the gastank is *full*?

#14 of 14 by tsty on Fri Dec 9 14:33:38 1994:

I really like optimism, but after 120,000 miles, I'm
not +that+ optimistic about "full."
  
However, popcorn's #8 is the right way to go.

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