[25885] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.8: send_message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jul 29 20:45:08 2004
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To: jmorzins@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[25881] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:44:27 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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>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,
Fixed- I coincidentally ran into this earlier today and fixed it (by making
the symlink). Thanks for the detailed analysis.
As to the other, more complicated issue- I maintain the locker but I'm
not a programmer and didn't write the code for the messaging
utilities- this gets beyond my depth and I'm also reluctant to risk
breaking something in the Matlab lockers unless it's really
necessary. I'd need to balance risk and effort against the benefit
returned.
I believe the current send_message is written in C, though a version
in Perl existed also. I'm not sure who, if anyone, maintains the code
at this point but maybe I can find out.
Alex
