[3208] in Athena Bugs
/tmp/Xbin (actually deactivate in general)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hkbirke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 15 03:17:08 1989
From: <hkbirke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 03:16:20 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: danapple@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, hkbirke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, mjkobb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System: Athena 6.3B
Hardware: all
BUG: /etc/athena/deactivate
stomps on far too much of the workstation configuration if PUBLIC =
FALSE. this seems to include (but is not limited to) removing /tmp/Xbin,
replacing CellServDB from the _packs_, and cleaning /tmp and /usr/tmp in
general [although it seems reasonably civil with /usr/tmp].
what should hae happened:
1) it should not remove /tmp/* blindly on deactivation! this stomp
on many things such as X servers (not usually a problem), galatea servers
(a major problem) and /tmp/Xbin (a major problem... emacs bounces through it
regardless of terminal type!). instead it should remove all files and leave
directories and unix-style directories alone (ie, remove the contents thereof
but not the directories themselves and leae .*/* alone)
2) CellServDB.public should be grabbed locally if a local
one exists (and from the packs if the local one isn't there).
much obliged,
--hal
Now to recreate /tmp/Xbin so I can write mail :-)
