Re: what are these files

[Gary Sabot <gary@sabot.com>]

   To: Gary Sabot <gary@sabot.com>
   From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
   Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:49:08 +0000 (GMT)
   Subject: Re: [S] what are these files
   
   On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Gary Sabot wrote:
   
   >    To: <aczarn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
   >    From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
   >    Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:16:58 +0000 (GMT)
   >    Subject: Re: [S] what are these files
   >
   >    .Audit is used to keep a record of all the commands entered.  This could
   >    be examined via
   >
   >    Splus AUDIT
   >
   >    in S-PLUS 3.4, but that seems missing in 5.1.
   >
   >    It's possible to make .Data/.Audit unwriteable, when nothing is
   >    recorded.  As in
   >
   >    chmod u-w .Data/.Audit
   >
   >    This will give a warning you can ignore.
   >
   > A cleaner way is to set the environment variable S_NOAUDIT to T before
   > running S.  This is a new variable for SPlus 6.0, but unfortunately it
   > was left out of the list on pages 433-434 of Chapter 9 of the S-PLUS 6
   > for Unix/Linux User's Guide.
   
   He's running 5.1, though.

Whoops, I didn't notice that...

For 5.1, I think you can skip the audit file while avoiding the
"unwritable" warning if you make the .Data file be a link to
/dev/null.

--gary