[1406] in Athena Bugs
A bug with .login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tldavis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 21 21:06:30 1988
From: <tldavis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 21:06:14 EST
Program with which you had the problem: startup (system .login)
who discovered the bug: Tim Davis
MIT phone number: 5-7615
MIT address: 475 Mem. Dr. Apr 213
Athena Login ID: tldavis@athena.mit.edu
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synopsis:
get_message: Command not found.
Error message when trying to get message of the day. (Apparently new
release -- 6.0R? but as a result it doesn't admit to being updated)
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detail:
On E25-131-6 (IBM RT), Monday 11/21/88 21:00, server caduceus
File "/srvd/site/usr/athena/lib/init/login_misc" line 16 reads:
/bin/athena/get_message -new -zephyr
No such command exists. Perhaps its name has been changed to gmotd (which
seems to take no arguments)?
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Repeat by:
login to workstation with a "new" (as of 9/88) .login file which sources
the above file.
Or, type "source /usr/athena/lib/init/login_misc"
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Change to the ?new "gmotd" command in the above file, or alternatively, put
the ?new get_message command in /bin/athena/.
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Kinda sloppy if you ask me, to get an error >on login<.
-- but otherwise a great release! Thanks! My software all works!
Tim Davis
