[11749] in Athena Bugs
Bug in OLH for frame viewer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jesse@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 15 17:59:30 1994
From: jesse@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 17:59:26 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
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>> BUG REPORT: on sun
>>
>> When I am in Help (OLH), and I am in
>>
>> * Text Processing
>> * FrameMaker Documention Preparation Software
>> * Framemaker on Athena (DRAFT)
>>
>> and I double click on the item to bring up the docuemtn, it should
>> start up the FrameViewer and show me the "FrameMaker on Athena"
>> document.
>>
>> However, instead I get:
>>
>> caroma@athena>usage: ps [ -edalfcj ] [ -r sysname ] [ -t termlist ]
>> [ -u uidlist ] [ -p proclist ] [ -g grplist ] [ -s sidlist ]
>>
>> You must have portmapper running to use FrameMaker.
>>
>> Please start one by becoming root:
>>
>> athena% cd /
>> athena% su
>> Password: mrroot
>>
>> and typing
>>
>> athena# /etc/portmap
>> athena# exit
>> athena% cd
The problem is that OLH executes a ps -something that the suns choke on
and thus they do not start up the frame viewer saying that portmap isn't
running, but the suns do not need portmap.
Thanks.
-Jesse Hong
-OLC
