[16085] in Athena Bugs
netscape attachandrun/PATH problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Jul 31 16:40:26 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: rbasch@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:40:21 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
On IRIX 6.x systems, we replace /usr/bin/X11/netscape with an attachandrun
script for the program in the infoagents locker, as that explicit path
is exec'ed by certain programs. In the case of SoftWindows95, it also
seems to set an explicit PATH when exec'ing netscape, so that one sees
the following complaints:
UX:sh (netscape): ERROR: athdir: Not found
UX:sh (netscape): ERROR: attach: Not found
athdir and attach are invoked by the netscape script in infoagents.
So, it seems that the infoagents script should use explicit paths,
and/or we should ensure a reasonable PATH within the attachandrun
facility.
Bob
