[177] in SIPB bug reports
Re: A few random problems ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 21 01:18:09 1988
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 88 01:15:56 EDT
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <pfkrause@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
Cc: bug-dialup@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Paul F Krause's message of Sat, 20 Aug 88 14:22:04 EDT,
Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu
From: <pfkrause@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 88 14:22:04 EDT
for example. But only sometimes! That's right, only about 2 in every
3 login sessions have this problem. It seems that if I logout/login
enough times, it will go away, although I've not tried this because it
takes so long to log in. What could be causing this problem?
Try using the command "rehash" to the shell. I think the problem is
that sometimes the sipb filesystem is attached before your path is set;
and sometimes not. What happens is that the shell tries to see what's
in all of the directories so it can find programs fast. But if the sipb
filesystem isn't attached when your path is set, the shell won't know
about the contents of /mit/sipb/{vax,rt}bin, so it complains "command
not found". The rehash command forces the shell to look in all of the
directories again.
There are two ways to fix this problem. One is to put an "attach sipb"
command in your .login before your path is set, to make sure that
/mit/sipb/{vax,rt}bin exists when the path is set. The other option is
to do a "rehash" command after you attach the sipb filesystem.
2) Why doesn't my .forward file forward my mail anymore?
The mail system is different now; the athena mailhub sends mail
directly to your post office machine, and when you try to read your
mail, the mail reading programs on your workstation (or on dialup)
contact the post office server and gets your mail for you. So your
.forward file never gets consulted. If you wish to forward your mail,
contact the User Accounts Manager, Carla Fermann (carla@athena.mit.edu).
She can have your mail forwarded elsewhere if you wish.
3) Is there anywhere on Athena that I can Supdup to from my Lispm?
Currently, I'm telnetting to Dialup with a vt100 emulator, but this is
not the best solution for several reasons. I could probably even run
xterm on my Lispm if I could figure out what to connect it to (it
seems like an abuse to do this on Dialup). Also, is there ANY way to
access the contents of my locker without logging in first?
Not really; athena machines simply don't run supdup servers, so you
just can't supdup anywhere. And unfortunately, the athena model has
been for you to login in front of a workstation; very little support for
accessing your files except for by this method. The demand for rlogin
servers is proving that Athena should perhaps support other service
models besides that of a user logging into a workstation. But for now,
the only way is to either login to a workstation, or logging into
dialup.mit.edu. Note that use of dialup as a rlogin server is not
officially supported, and may go away at some point.
- Ted
P.S. Your sendmail file is broken; it isn't domain qualifying the from
lines.... fortunately I happened to know that wheaties is in the
ai.mit.edu domain.
