[20194] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape wrapper attaches outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Feb 26 07:23:49 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
cc: <bug-infoagents@mit.edu>
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Sorry for the delay; I meant to go look at this Monday and never had a
chance. I've removed this bogus dependency (as of seven Tuesday morning).
I'm surprised to see it's still in there; it's a relic of very bygone
days, and it probably didn't belong in there even then, and I thought I
had long since removed it. Anyhow, the script doesn't have a genuine need
for outland, and as far as I know, it never did.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> 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
>
>
