[19801] in Athena Bugs
Re: local netscape breakage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Sep 17 14:42:07 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:42:01 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20010917144201.K3186@multics.mit.edu>
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Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 17 Sep 2001
at 14:39:55 -0400 in <200109171839.OAA18285@riff-raff.mit.edu>:
> 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.
perhaps the mirroring script should test for the presence of a
netscape binary when it's done mirroring then, and if the test fails,
move aside /var/athena/infoagents? Or something similar.
--jhawk
