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colgate update continued...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Craft)
Tue Oct 22 23:25:53 1996
From: Brian Craft <bcboy@dorothy.ccs.brandeis.edu>
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:28:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Regarding my last message, here's an update.
I resolved the mouse stuff in XF86Config. I'm guessing the server was
installed because I unselected XFree86-3.1.2-11 but not XFree86-Mach64-3.1.2-11.
One weirdness is things that depend on the X libs complain about them
not being installed, though XFree86-3.1.2-4 *was* installed (it shows up on
rpm -qa), and included the libraries. Do the dependencies require files from
a specfic rpm version?
Installing the updates (should have done that before writing) solved the
tcsh arrow key thing.
There seems to be some weirdness with executables named "test".
The new /etc/csh.cshrc invokes /usr/bin/test as "test", so if there's a
local shell script by that name, it generates an avalanche of processes.
(csh.cshrc runs "test", which is a local shell script, which runs tcsh,
which runs csh.cshrc, which runs "test", etc.)
This appears to have been recently changed, as the Rembrandt betas I've
installed don't invoke test.
I'm not sure how reasonable that is (if executables named test should have to
be avoided, or if the cshrc should use a full path, or something). The
failure mode does seem to be a bit much (generating mounds of processes.
i'm not sure what happens if it's allowed to keep running. i suppose it
runs out of process id's or something).
b.c.
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