[19800] in Athena Bugs
Re: local netscape breakage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Sep 17 14:39:58 2001
Message-Id: <200109171839.OAA18285@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:33:10 EDT."
<200109171833.OAA14535@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:39:55 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> It turned out that /var/athena/infoagents/arch/sun4x_58 existed but
>> was empty. I'm not sure what would cause that, but presuambly it's a
>> bug or limitation in the mirroring script?
This is a known issue that occurs when the mirroring script fails for
whatever reason; As I recall, the exit value of synctree isn't as
meaningful as one would hope. The corrective action you took was the
correct one; the machine should fix itself the next time
/etc/athena/local-netscape runs.
Garry
