[26208] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.16: send_message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Nov 30 18:30:36 2004
Message-Id: <200411302330.iAUNU0ZL020129@dit.mit.edu>
To: merolish@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[26196] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:30:00 -0500
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?
> Use Athena software with wrappers that call send_message.
>
>What's wrong:
> If zwgc is running, send_message will zephyr me. If I'm
> running owl or no zephyr client at all, send_message will
> print to stdout. If I run the program in the background,
> I wait around wondering what happened, until I figure out
> that the job is suspended and fg it.
This sounds like an issue that was raised previously; see the threads
starting with bugs[25876] and bugs[26013]. A modified send_message has
been written, and is currently implemented in the matlab and acro
lockers- try "add matlab; matlab" or "add acro; acroread" to see if
the behavior is as you would like.
I'm not updating all the other lockers to use the new send_message all
at once, but plan to do this gradually as I upgrade lockers; for one
thing, I want to extensively test things as this has the potential to
affect many users; we already found and fixed one bug that caused
messages to repeat when they shouldn't have.
Alex Prengel
IS&T Academic Computing
UNIX Third Party Software Support
