Re: what are these files

[Gary Sabot <gary@sabot.com>]

   To: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
   From: Gary Sabot <gary@sabot.com>
   Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:52:38 -0500
   Subject: Re: [S] what are these files
   
      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.
   
My turn to make a mis-pasting error... that should read "make the
.Data/.Audit file be a link to /dev/null".

--gary