[16605] in Athena Bugs
Re: a poorly phrased message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Jan 15 11:58:00 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:57:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199901132002.PAA05904@steve-dallas.mit.edu>
Oy. I think I would rather change the message than have the script do the
rm itself, as your later email suggests. (There may, after all, be reasons
why a user WANTS to cache in her home locker temporarily. We don't force
them not to, we just strongly discourage it. If so, deleting the cache is
rude.)
I'll change the script today to reflect your changes in the text below. It
will propagate tomorrow.
-Todd Belton
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Joseph Sokol-Margolis wrote:
> So I was in the sipb office today, and a user came needing help. She
> had logged in, and gotten the message about netscape eating her quota,
> then tried to type the commands as suggested. Suddenly nothing worked.
> She had meant to type "rm -rf ~/.netscape/cache" but had actually
> typed "rm -rf ~ /.netscape/cache" As many users seem confused about
> where to put spaces, and where not to, I suggest changing the message
> from:
>
> 14:15 **** Netscape is eating 5751K of your quota! ****
> 14:15 To correct, this situation, quit Netscape, and then run
> 14:15 add infoagents
> 14:15 netscape-fix
> 14:15 rm -rf ~/.netscape/cache
>
> to:
>
> 14:15 **** Netscape is eating 5751K of your quota! ****
> 14:15 To correct, this situation, quit Netscape, and then run
> 14:15 add infoagents
> 14:15 netscape-fix
> 14:15 cd
> 14:15 rm -rf .netscape/cache
