[3067] in Athena Bugs
Re: zinit symlink (6.3B RT AFS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 1 18:05:06 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 18:04:47 -0400
To: jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Fri, 01 Sep 89 17:12:13 EDT,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> achates# ls /etc/athena/zinit
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 23 Aug 28 21:29 /etc/athena/zinit -> /srvd/bin/athena/attach
> There is no reason that zinit should not point to the root: /bin/athena/attach.
Yes, there is a reason for the 6.3A transition. If we point it to the
root, the old version of attach does not have the zinit functionality
and thus will not work. It is not worth having a separate binary
either.
Please note that this link will go away when everything is 6.3B+ or
higher.
-Richard
(Sorry Henry for answering... I thought this might be obscure enough
information that I thought I should step in).
