[15083] in Athena Bugs
weirdo /usr/bin/login on quickstations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Apr 17 03:15:33 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:15:28 -0400
To: quickcomments@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
So, I decided to try a QS for the 1st time today, and I logged in as
root and ran track -n -c -v, it reported:
quickstation-2# /usr/athena/etc/track -n -c -v
-n: what we WOULD do:
using /srvd/usr/athena/lib/slists/sys_rvd as subscription-list
using /srvd/usr/athena/lib/stats/sys_rvd as statfile
Updating file /usr/bin/login ( mod-time=861231518)
from file /srvd/usr/bin/login ( mod-time=834195475)
cleared lock /tmp/sys_rvd.started
This seemed kind of odd, and this seems even odder:
quickstation-2# cat /usr/bin/login
#!/bin/csh
echo $*
exec login.bak $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
(such scripts should never ever ever be written in csh,
but even if they were they should be written as "#!/bin/csh -f"; I won't
go on about other problems).
I suppose this may mean the workstation is hacked, but I dunno.
Other comments:
1. The keyboard positioning is really quite uncomfortable
to type at, especially for those inclined to be tall. One can move
the keyboard up to the table w/ the monitor, but doing so strains
the length of the keyboard cables, and requires one to push the
monitor back a bit.
2. The warning that tells you "you have two minutes" should
have a timestamp on it.
3. Quickcomments should have a public discuss archive. PLEASE!
4. Neither of the 2 W20 QS's appear to have their names labelled
on them. You'd think the little info sheet screwed in to the tabel
would mention hotline or quickcomments as a place to send info to,
but it does not seem to. It also fails to properly kern the "//"
in "http://" in the final two paragraphs, and places a line break
in the middle of a pathname (under "Customizing a Quick Session").
5. The color balance on this monitor (on QS2) is off. It looks
like white is halfway between real white and "AntiqueWhite1".
6. It'd be nice if the qs's had the newer sparc monitors,
since we supposedly have an abundance of them and there aren't
very many qs's.
--jhawk
ps: sorry forthe inconsistent casing/spelling of qs.
