[5490] in Athena Bugs
A bug with the default zwgc.desc on the decmips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (leira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 10 23:00:26 1990
From: leira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 23:00:08 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: /usr/athena/lib/zephyr/zwgc.desc
(decmips version)
Name of person who discovered the bug: Linda Julien
Their MIT phone number: x3-6079 (day) x3-7788 (some evenings)
Their MIT address: c/o SIPB, W20-557
Their Athena Login ID: leira
Name of consultant reporting bug: leira
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
The default .zwgc.desc on the decmips has an error.
exec /usr/athena/zmailnotify
should be
exec "/usr/athena/zmailnotify"
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
On a decmips, in the lines that should be uncommented to display
sender, recipient and subject lines of new mail, there are no quotes
around the argument to exec. It gives an error of
zwgc: error in description file: syntax error on line 76.
This problem does not exist on the rts (I don't know about vaxen).
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
On a decmips, copy /usr/athena/lib/zephyr/zwgc.desc into .zwgc.desc in
your homedir.
Uncomment the ten lines you should uncomment in order to be notified
of sender, etc. of new mail.
zctl wg_load
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Put quotes (") around
/usr/athena/zmailnotify
