[13596] in Athena Bugs
NetProb ticket #2911, sun4 [7.7L]: znol error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mbarker@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 15 14:51:05 1995
From: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:50:48 -0400
To: yandros@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
hi. the error message you reported is part of a temporary patch at the
com_err library level. it should be fixed in the next release, where
znol would give an error like "could not open file while getting WindowGram port"
thanks for using Athena
mike
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>Subject: sun4 [7.7L]: znol error message
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>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''.
>
>
>
>NETPROB-NOTE:
>Note: tetrion Thu Jun 15 12:08:54 1995
>Code for znol is okay, bug lies in com_err function.
>Bug resulted from a patch to com_err, remind Craig for the fix.
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