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Re: Setting $athena_manpath in /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sun Mar 8 19:28:11 2009
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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I think that the bailing with small dotfiles bugs should be investigated.
It seems like the real problem is that any minor dotfiles bug now prevents
people from being able to log in.
-Tim Abbott
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> We don't set $athena_manpath anymore. I think only really ancient accounts
> have this set, and it was primarily useful on Sun where manpages were in 5
> million places, but since Ubuntu likes to bail if dotfiles refer to
> non-existent environment variables, we should probably just set it to MANPATH
> or something. I noticed we still honor $athena_path for ~/.path users, so we
> should probably honor this (or document that we're not honoring it).
>
> -Jon
