[2814] in SIPB bug reports
xrn lock error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri May 8 15:50:28 1992
Date: Fri, 8 May 92 15:49:37 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: kevles@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kevles@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 8 May 92 14:05:19 -0400 <9205081805.AA13047@caliban.MIT.EDU>
From: kevles@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 8 May 92 14:05:19 -0400
This message came in to olc today. I've seen ones like it occasionally. Do
you think it might be possible to make the xrnlock error message more
explicit? ie, tell people what exactly to type?
--Beth
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The computer responds "An XRn of yours is running on m16-034-4 as process
19097. If it is no longer running, remove the file /mit/USER/.xrnlock""
When I try to remove this file, it responds "Remove only works from
the same shell in which you typed setup." My question is: "How do I remove
this XRN?
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No. The sipb tries, as much as possible, to stay away from local
customizations of programs we get from elsewhere, because such
customizations are difficult to keep intact when new versions of
programs are obtained.
I've already gotten the author of xrn to change the message from
'remove /mit/USER/.xrnlock" to "remove the file /mit/USER/.xrnlock",
so that it would be obvious that the message is a SENTENCE, and not a
command for people to type. I do not intend to introduce further
Athena-specific hacks, because we don't have time to maintain those
hacks each time we get a new version of xrn.
It does not hurt users to learn how to remove a file. Most of them
already know how.
jik
