[4152] in Release_7.7_team
Re: I guess we should modify the "lockers" man page.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Dec 13 11:06:18 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:06:11 -0500
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 18:41, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Now that there's some expectation that software in "lockers" might be
> running on systems without the suite of Athena tools, I think it might
> be apropos to add to the lockers man page something like the following:
So, the kind of lockers you may have in mind are ones like the matlab
locker, which have gargantuan front-end scripts wrapped around one or
two programs.
We also have to keep in mind lockers like the gnu or graphics locker,
which have many programs installed and do not generally use front-end
scripts. They also don't generally depend on Athena tools... but they
do frequently depend on the locker being accessible through
/mit/lockername and not just the AFS path.
So, I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to put language about
/etc/athena/version in the lockers man page. We've already made an
explicit decision to let locker software cryptically fail when people
don't use it via the Athena locker mechanism, and I can't imagine how we
would change that without screwing something else up.
