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Re: Athena update failing - Why? (Case: 118535)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Aug 25 21:38:08 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, hotline@MIT.EDU, hesreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:13:09 EDT."
<199808251513.LAA27927@arizona.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:38:04 EDT
> To: llbjr@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Couldn't run your "cron" job
> Content-Type: text
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> can't stat home dir.
> Commands will not be executed.
> The error was "No such file or directory"
The problem here is probably that his home directory was detached when
he logged out. This is a normal part of reactivating a workstation
when no one is logged in. I'm not sure how he was avoiding the
problem before. One possibility is to 'attach -L llbjr' which "locks"
the locker so that it won't be detached by the normal reactivation
process. I can't guarantee that this will work across patch releases,
but it might. If it doesn't, he should try adding the line:
attach -h -n -L llbjr
to /var/server/.private (which should be an executable sh script.)
That said, running cron jobs as yourself is not something we
particularly support on athena wokstations. Hopefully, the above will
solve his problem tho.
Jonathon
