[3164] in Release_Engineering
NetProb ticket #1476, Two bugs in global dotfiles mainly affecting RS/6000.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pjb@MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 1 15:25:02 1994
From: pjb@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 15:24:56 -0500
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
Cc:
Hi! This report covers a couple of things relating to the RS/6000, but I
thought you might want to know if any changes should be made for the next
release. If there is someone else who is more appropriate, please let me
know.
Thanks,
Pam
JIC Committee member
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>From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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>Subject: Two bugs in global dotfiles mainly affecting RS/6000.
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>1. The /srvd/usr/athena/lib/init/login file for the RS/6000 does 'stty
>dec' which is not valid on an RS/6000. There probably should be an stty
>command to set crterase, et al. But stty dec ain't it.
>
>(I note that this is not done on the same file for the Sun. Do we
>maintain different sets of dot files for each platform? This seems like
>a mistake to me.)
>
>2. In all the dot files, the user's .environment file is sourced before
>the user's path is set.
>
>There is an interesting problem. The 'add' alias calls 'attach' instead
>of '/bin/athena/attach'. The login program on all platforms EXCEPT the
>RS/6000 has been hacked to contain /usr/athena/bin and /bin/athena.
>
>Any user with 'add' in their .environment will lose when they run on an
>RS/6000. They may see the message 'attach: command not found'. Or they
>may just silently never log onto an RS/6000 ever again. Or they may
>silently use /bin/athena/attach in their .envronment file (as I do) and
>never report the bug.
>
>I suggest that /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc be modified to look for
>/usr/athena/bin and /bin/athena in the path before sourcing
>.environment, and add them if they're not already there.
>
>-wdc
>-For the committee to stamp out bit rot-
>
>
