[8253] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (honor@Athena.mit.edu)
Sun Sep 22 15:14:20 1991
From: honor@Athena.mit.edu
To: bugs@Athena.mit.edu, bug@Athena.mit.edu
Cc: honor@Athena.mit.edu
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 15:14:55 EDT
Not even sure if these are the right mailing lists, but...
A few days ago I logged in and my fileserver was down. I got a temp
directory and a warning that any mail I inc'ed would be lost. I had
heard that with the new release this wasn't so, so decided to check. I
inc'ed the mail. Then I used "from -v" to see if it was still at the
PO, which it was. And indeed, the temp .mh_profile had specified the
notruncate option to inc.
Not too long after that I attempted to login on a few different
workstations, but since my fileserver was down, I couldn't. After
trying to login, it said it couldn't attach my homedir, and asked if I'd
like to try again (to which I answered yes). After the second attempt
to attach my homedir failed, it just aborted the login process, instead
of asking if I wanted to continue with a temp directory.
Not too long after that, I attempted to login on 'test-3100', and my
fileserver was down (If you haven't guessed already, it's aphrodite).
This time I was allowed to login with a temp directory though. However,
I incorporated mail, and lost it. I assumed (yeah, big mistake), that
inc would be using the notruncate option, but evidently it didn't.
Luckily none of the mail I lost was that important, but I'd still
suggest a bit more consistency... Users should have a chance to login
with a temp dir, the notruncate option to inc should be used by default
when they do login with a temp dir, and because of this, they shouldn't
receive the warning about inc'ing mail when they do login.
Thanx for listening, and please let me know if I sent this to the wrong
mailing lists.
Andy Cassidy
honor@athena
