[18168] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.10: trn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Aug 18 14:17:22 2000
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu, bug-sipb@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 Aug 2000 14:17:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: Laura Baldwin's message of "Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:24:36 -0400"
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<boojum@MIT.EDU> (Laura Baldwin) writes:
> What should have happened:
> If the mime locker is required to run trn, it should be
> attached automatically and not expect me to magically know to
> do so. Or trn should try and call it through the full AFS
> path. Or something, I'm not sure what canon is for dealing
> with requiring programs from other lockers.
On Athena 8.2 and above (including the latest releases of SIPB-Athena
for Linux and NetBSD), the Right Thing is for trn to run
/bin/athena/attachandrun mime metamail metamail [arguments]
I've Cc:ed bug-sipb so that whoever maintains the trn install in the
sipb locker (the only one on Athena, according to whichlocker) can
know to fix it.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
