[20351] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.0.26: acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon May 20 18:28:17 2002
Message-Id: <200205202228.SAA17001@dit.mit.edu>
To: kenta@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, tbelton@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[20350] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:28:14 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi Ken,
You sent to bugs:
>What were you trying to do?
>launch acroread from mozilla
>
>What's wrong:
>doesn't start, when opened with /mit/acro/arch/@sys/bin/acroread
>
>What should have happened:
>should start
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>I think the problem is that the acroread script doesn't
>start with #! /usr/athena/bin/perl
>
>(I've locally copied the script, changed the first line, and it works)
We've verified the problem (and implemented the fix you suggest), though
it's not clear why it's happening in the first place. We haven't had trouble
with the script before this.
The fix should be out by tonight's nightly AFS propagation. Let me know if
there's still a problem tomorrow.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
