[1376] in athena10
Re: my local movemail is broken..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Mar 7 21:48:10 2009
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:47:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: jsol@mit.edu
cc: linerva@mit.edu
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Hi,
I'm not able to access that file, so I can't tell you what's wrong.
However, you could try recompiling that program on Linerva. Probably,
tokata.mit.edu is an older machine, and your movemail is compiled with
out-of-date libraries. The upgrade today probably removed some of the
older libraries.
If you run "ldd /mit/jsol/krb4-movemail/movemail", it should list what
libraries it was and wasn't able to find.
One way to deal with having versions of software for older and newer
platforms is to use AFS sysnames and the "@sys" directory. If you put the
older movemail in i386_rhel4/movemail and make the newer one
i386_deb50/movemail, then trying to access "@sys/movemail" will give you
the appropriate version of the software. This is how locker software
manages to run on Athena 10 and Athena 9 on multiple platforms (Linux,
Solaris, etc.) at once.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, jsol@MIT.EDU wrote:
> actually what happens is my .emacs says this...
>
> (setq rmail-movemail-program "/mit/jsol/krb4-movemail/movemail")
>
> when I log into "tokata.mit.edu", this code works fine.
>
> when I log into vinegar-pot, emacs doesn't load the new mail
> into my RMAIL file.
>
> --jsol
>
> p.s. this worked fine before you made the upgrade today.
>
