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Re: minor issue with autoinstaller, I think

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rishi Gupta)
Wed Jan 28 21:37:16 2009

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Confirmed.

Thanks,
-Rishi

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> wrote:
> Actually, the renew command should be available on all Debathena systems --
> the debathena-bash-config package provides it for users not using the Athena
> dotfiles.
>
> The problem here is likely that changes to shell aliases only take effect
> when you start a new shell, and so the shells you had already existing when
> you installed Debathena don't have the renew command.  Can you confirm that
> the "renew" command works on your machine if you start a new shell?
>
> (you may not need to start a new one because your shells from yesterday have
> likely all exited, but it should definitely work if you start a new shell by
> running "bash".)
>
>        -Tim Abbott
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Rishi Gupta wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Just fyi, http://debathena.mit.edu/install still says you
>> should use renew instead of kinit; aklog, which might confuse people
>> that don't have it.
>>
>> -Rishi
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> The renew command is provided by the Athena standard dotfiles, which
>>> aren't sourced by default for non-Athena accounts. If you want to source
>>> those, add either "source /usr/lib/init/bashrc" to your .bashrc or
>>> "source /usr/lib/init/cshrc" to your .cshrc, depending on which shell
>>> you're using.
>>>
>>> - Evan
>>>
>>> Rishi Gupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (I do have kinit and aklog)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Rishi Gupta <rishig@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Auto-installing debathena-standard on Ibex, the "renew" command isn't
>>>>> there.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Rishi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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