[18543] in Athena Bugs
emacs problem sending mail on linux (was: Re: "sebastiano-ziani.mit.edu stuck in the middle of an update")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Nov 27 01:00:21 2000
Message-Id: <200011270600.BAA02627@detraction.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Arthur Steinberg <arthurs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-to: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:40:31 EST."
<200011262240.RAA18463@sebastiano-ziani.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 01:00:11 -0500
The correct way to report bugs of this nature is to run the "sendbug"
command, or to send mail to bugs@mit.edu. In this case I'm forwarding
your mail there now, so you don't need to bother reporting the problem
again. However, it would be helpful if you could reply, letting them
know how comp failed before you added the lines below.
Jonathon
> are you the guy to tell about a bug in the linux/athena setup. when i
> ssh'd in from home to ziani, i could neither repl not comp
> my mail. the fellow who set my system up for me suggested that i add
> these lines to my .cshrc.mine file which i did and it works. but
> should this be necessary?
>
> One workaround is to cut and paste the following lines into your
> ~/.cshrc.mine file:
>
> if ( !($TERM == "xterm") && ($HOST == "sebastiano-ziani.mit.edu") )
> then
> alias comp "comp -editor /usr/bin/emacs"
> alias repl "repl -editor /usr/bin/emacs"
> alias forw "forw -editor /usr/bin/emacs"
> alias dist "dist -editor /usr/bin/emacs"
> endif
>
> couldn't you folks fix this in the athena 8.4 that goes with linux?
>
> otherwise most things seem to be working ok.
>
> arthur
>
