[18958] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape burps error on sun4x_58
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu May 17 15:04:10 2001
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:04:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
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Yup, that was always a little bit of a hack. Do you have any
recommendations on a better way to test if the user's homedir is in AFS? I
personally didn't write that test, but I presume my predecessor wouldn't
have used it if he'd had a better one available. Or maybe I presume wrong
:)
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> Starting netscape on a sun4x_58 machine gives the error:
>
> df: Could not find mount point for /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/z/a/zacheiss
>
> This is apparently the result of a behavior change in df between Solaris
> 7 and Solaris 8:
>
> [zacheiss@sweet-transvestite] ~$ fs sysname
> Current sysname is 'sun4x_57'
> [zacheiss@sweet-transvestite] ~$ df $HOME
> /afs (AFS ):18000000 blocks 9000000 files
>
> [zacheiss@brad-majors] ~$ fs sysname
> Current sysname is 'sun4x_58'
> [zacheiss@brad-majors] ~$ df $HOME
> df: Could not find mount point for /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/z/a/zacheiss
>
> The netscape wrapper script should be rewritten to use some other
> way of testing if the user's homedir is in AFS.
>
> Garry
>
>
