[2686] in testers
Re: rsaix 7.7E: cleanup bug - maybe ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Wetzel)
Tue Aug 9 13:49:45 1994
To: cfields@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 13:49:27 EDT
From: Jake Wetzel <jawetzel@MIT.EDU>
Okay. Here's my problem. I logon to a machine in a public cluster. I attach
certain lockers (perhaps this attach is in my dot file ... or maybe not).
Being an up-to-date kind of guy, I do the following:
attach x11r5
attach motif1.2
Perhaps I now do some compiling or run an application that depends on a file
on one of these lockers (XKeysymDB comes to mind immediately). All of a
sudden my app is spewing error messages at me left and right. Silly me, I
wasn't paying attention to the messages that attach was giving me. Its seems
that the user ahead of me issued the following commands:
attach x11
attach motif
These attach x11r4 and motif1.1 respectively. Now I have to go and manually
detach the previous users lockers so I can get my stuff to work/run. I don't
think that the average user should have to cleanup after the previous user
just because he was unlucky enough to sit down at a machine that wasn't idle
long enough for the attachtab to be cleaned up.
I think every user when he/she logs on should get a clean machine.
Jake
