[20190] in Athena Bugs
netscape wrapper attaches outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sun Feb 24 03:20:27 2002
Message-Id: <200202240820.DAA04412@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:20:23 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
There was a problem in the sipb AFS cell this evening that
resulted in the top level of the outland locker being temporarily
unaccessible. This would normally be unfortunate but not an enormous
problem; unfortunately, people were having problems starting netscape
because the wrapper script attaches the outland locker.
SIPB tries reasonably hard to make sure no one depends on the
outland locker, since it is explicitly unsupported. It seems wrong for
what's probably the most frequently run piece of Athena third party
software to attach the outland locker. So, a couple of questions:
1.) What software is netscape currently depending on out of the
outland locker?
2.) Is the above software something that we should be
supporting, or at least encouraging SIPB to move to the
sipb locker, which is supported?
Garry
