[13061] in Athena Bugs
sun4 [7.7L]: znol error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 2 04:21:26 1995
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 04:21:19 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
System name: infocalypse
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7L
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
See if anyone from my home was logged in, according to zephyr.
What went wrong?
from my home directory (world-readable file):
; cd lib
; znol -f anyone.fenwayhouse
znol: No such file or directory
; cat anyone.fenwayhouse
cat anyone.fenwayhouse
jbdigriz
tlyu
mdtanner
yurt
sorokin
swseago
met_1
yandros
jimw
wilmes
mwhitson
bootes
mattneu
vanyel
jrussell
aster
garbanzo
lizzied
cjdafons
melsod
chc
After a few seconds of pondering, I realized that the file that znol
was complaining about was the wg file in /tmp for my zwgc (I wasn't
running one).
What should have happened?
Zephyr should not use pessimally-chosen error messages. *I* know
that zwgc uses a temporary file, and so I was able to puzzle it out;
most people wouldn't know that and shouldn't need to.
Anything else you'd like to add?
Yeah. IMHO, this is much worse even than ``generic_kfailure''.
