[25881] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.8: send_message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Jul 28 16:49:46 2004
Message-Id: <200407282049.i6SKnW3K022980@opus.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:49:32 -0400
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: opus.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/sh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Here's a much simpler send_message issue:
I ran matlab on a Linux machine, and noticed that
the launcher script didn't show me the messages for
"matlab7.0_avail" or "openafsavail".
What's wrong:
The matlab launcher script sets
$swtoolsDir="/afs/athena/software/swtools
and then tries to launch
$swtoolsDir/bin/send_message
The swtools locker's bin directory is a symlink to
arch/@sys/bin, but the swtools locker does not have
an arch/i386_rhel3 directory. So "swtools/bin" is
a broken symlink, and the matlab launcher cannot find
$swtoolsDir/bin/send_message.
What should have happened:
I should have seen the messages for "matlab7.0_avail"
and for "openafsavail".
If the swtools locker had an arch/i386_rhel3 directory, the
matlab launcher script would have shown me the messages.
As a different solution, the launcher script could
have used "athdir" to locate any $ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT bin
directories in the swtools locker, instead of hardcoding
the arch/@sys/bin directory of the swtools locker.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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Thanks for your time,
-Jacob
