[3175] in Release_Engineering
Washing Machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sat Apr 2 00:06:38 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 94 00:06:34 -0500
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
The washing machines are broken. I tried to use kenmore (the rs6k),
and found that I wasn't in the password file. No problem; I had
someone who was on the machine magically get me added, and I'm in
business.
..except that the machine's srvd seems to be missing rarely used
programs like `kinit'. Ok, that's alright, I can do gross stuff:
; attach -h -n -m /usefulsrvd beta-rssys
and I hand-hack my path to use this; yay, I win.
..except that do to the way the RS/6000 packs are delivered (via two
filesystems with ugly symlink connections) I now have `kinit' but not
`mkdir'. Sigh; time to give up on the rs6k and try the sun, which I'm
reasonably sure should work ok. I log in normally, everything runs
fine, the world is happy.
..except for one small detail:
/usr/athena/bin/kinit: Permission denied.
that looks odd. Hurm.
; ls -al /usr/athena/bin/kinit
-rwx------ 1 root other 81752 Mar 30 11:20 /usr/athena/bin/kinit
Hurm. That looks odd.
; ls -al /usr/athena/bin/.
[ sad details omitted]
Large chunks of /usr/athena/bin are mode 700 (read useless). Time to
give up and go back to using SIPB and Zone machines. That's totally
ok, since I happen to be building something not for DCNS; I just
wanted to see how things would work out.
..but I must admit that this wasn't an encouraging end to a bad week.
:-(
chad
