[17710] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: mathematica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Blout)
Sat Mar 25 15:36:07 2000
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:35:59 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200003252035.PAA18634@m12-182-25.mit.edu>
From: Ben Blout <blout@MIT.EDU>
To: ajfox@mit.edu
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200003232122.QAA24209@whirlwind.mit.edu> (message from Abby Fox
on Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:22:50 -0500)
Ok, thanks.
I just thought you might like to know about it...
-Ben
>Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:22:50 -0500
>From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>
>Hello.
>
>You recently reported Mathematica dying with a bus error when your
>tokens expired. Unfortunately, this seems to be a case of an
>application which just doesn't deal as gracefully as we'd like with AFS;
>we can mention it to the vendor, but from past experience AFS users are
>probably not a large enough part of their customer base for them to
>give it high priority.
>
>From a practical standpoint, it's best to save your work frequently and
>keep track of when your tokens expire so you can renew in time to
>prevent nasty surprises.
>
>Abby Fox
>Academic Computing
