[10138] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4G: purge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Dec 15 18:30:09 1992
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:29:59 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Tim Kwan's message of Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:24:13 EST <9212152324.AA17212@w20-575-80>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:24:13 EST
From: Tim Kwan <timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
purge: /afs/athena/user/t/timkwan/News: Not a directory
Can you duplicate this? I.e., does it happen every time you run the
program on a DECstation?
It should have done the purge! /afs/athena/user/t/timkwan/News is
clearly a valid "directory":
athena% ls -d ~/News
/afs/athena/user/t/timkwan/News
This does not show anything "clearly." Please do this and send what
you get:
ls -ldg ~/News
cd ~/News; pwd
Actually /afs/athena/user/t/timkwan is a symlink to
/afs/athena/user/t/i/timkwan. So I guess purge doesn't recognize
symlinks!
Yes, it does.
I'm going to need more details if I'm going to be able to track down
the problem.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
(author and maintainer of delete et al)
