[979] in SIPB bug reports
[Daniel Peisach: [tytso@MIT.EDU: Re: discuss.el interface bug]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 29 17:22:33 1990
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 17:22:01 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-discuss@MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
As mentioned in this message, the SIPB discuss software should be
referencing /usr/sipb. You are making assumptions as to the locations
of binaries.
Ted: Odie does get discuss feeds when it is deactivated. "mkserv
discuss" does work; I'm not going to hack odie to accomodate SIPB's
assumptions that their software is in /usr/local, when in the past, it
always referenced /usr/sipb - stick to one standard.
-Richard
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From: dpeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 17:15:23 EST
To: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: Re: discuss.el interface bug]
Reply-To: Daniel Peisach <dpeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Address: 3 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 225-6354 (w/ machine)
well, here's the response i got. thought you might be interested.
-dan
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 13:34:19 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Daniel Peisach <dpeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: dpeisach@MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 29 Mar 90 07:37:11 -0500,
<9003291237.AA07814@ODIE.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: discuss.el interface bug
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Address: EC Goodale 314, 3 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 225-6389
From: dpeisach@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 07:37:11 -0500
it might be related to the /mit/sipb/foobin/discuss bug. it looks for a
copy of /usr/local/disserve for local discuss meetings, which of course
crashes on any other machine besides charon or bloom-beacon.
This isn't a bug; it's a mis-configuration on odie's part.
/usr/local/disserve *should* be there, or odie should be providing its
own copies of all discuss binaries.... It's a bad idea for SIPB
software to be dependant on athena software; Athena isn't the entire
world, you know. (That's why all SIPB software is supposed to point to
/usr/sipb --- that way people who might want to use our software at the
Media-lab or at Tech^2 aren't hosed by this /mit/sipb nonsense, which
can't be found on Unix machines anywhere else in the world.) Besides,
up till recently, Athena didn't even support discuss, making the discuss
program look for /usr/etc/disserv wouldn't have made any sense at all.
(I should also note that /usr/etc is found only on athena, where
/usr/local is nice and standard.)
Go tell Richard to install a sym link between /usr/etc/disserv and
/usr/local/disserv; or better yet, if he wants mail feeds to any of his
discuss meetings work when his workstation is deactivated, to *copy*
/usr/etc/disserv to /usr/local/disserv. That's where it belongs.
- Ted
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