[4721] in testers
Re: Stuff I've noticed about new release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 4 23:47:34 2001
Message-Id: <200106050347.XAA32065@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: dryfoo@MIT.EDU (G.L.Dryfoos)
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:48:14 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 23:47:26 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> - .aliases file not sourced. usually it would be called from my
> .cshrc.mine file.
> - ENVIRONMENT vars $HOST and $HOSTNAME are set, but no shell var $host.
> - History commands like !$ not auto-substituted when followed by
> [space]
I can't reproduce any of these problems (and I think other testers
would have reported them). I don't know what could have changed in
9.0 to make them start happening to you. But let's take a stab:
* What is the value of "grep dryfoo /etc/passwd"? (I'm only
concerned with the last field, which gives the shell.)
* What is the value of $SHELL in your terminal?
> - EZ always looks bad on a Dell/Linux. Usually I ssh into an
> Ultra5 and run EZ from that window. In previous releases, that
> worked and EZ looked okay. Now EZ looks worse than ever, and none
> of the cursor icons are recognized -- they are replaced with alpha
> chars.
This sounds like a font problem. I can't reproduce it either (I don't
know how to get icons in ez, but ez doesn't look bad). After you run
ez, do "xset q" and tell me the value of "Font Path:". For me, it is:
Font Path:
unix/:7100,/usr/athena/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/andrew/X11fonts/
Also, verify that "ls /usr/andrew/X11fonts" produces a list of .pcf
files.
