[21851] in Athena Bugs
Re: Why is update_ws in /etc/athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Apr 18 08:55:11 2003
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:56:49 -0400
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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John Hawkinson wrote:
>
> Do you think current situation is oK? It's infrequent to hear people
> flailing trying to find update_ws.
>
> I'm kind of skeptical on the console login thing. People run it under
> X all the time and I don't think there's any widespread perception
> that that is not ok...
Well, the PWOG does explicitly say that you should type C-p at the login
screen and run it in console mode. And really, people should be reading
the PWOG if they're going to run update_ws.
I'm curious about this concept that "people don't know where update_ws
is". A cursory dsgrep through OLC transactions reveals that of all of
our questions mentioning update_ws, they were in two primary categories:
-How do I update my machine? (which implies they don't know the
process, so knowing where update_ws is isn't going to help)
-update_ws failed with these errors, what do I do now?
We didn't have any that said "I can't find update_ws" or "update_ws:
command not found".
-Jon
