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problems with local-lockers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 19 05:30:44 2002

Message-Id: <200212191030.FAA23754@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 05:30:41 -0500


I ran into a couple of problems with the local-lockers functionality.

1) The directory /var/athena/local/acro_v5.0.5/ is mode 666,
   presumably because the top level of the volume in afs is.

2) acroread is still run out of afs, apparently because
   /mit/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/$ATHENA_SYS/bin/acroread is a script that
   calls it with a full afs path.

the-other-woman:~: truss acroread | & grep exec
execve("/afs/athena.mit.edu/software/acro/arch/share/bin/wrapper", 0xFFBEF86C, 0xFFBEF878)  argc = 2
execve("/mit/acro_v5.0.5/arch/sun4x_58/bin/acroread", 0x000FE260, 0xFFBEF878)  argc = 2
execve("/mit/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/sun4x_58/bin/acroread", 0x0003A6C8, 0x0003A6D0)  argc = 2
execve("/afs/athena/software/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/sun4x_58/Reader/sparcsolaris/bin/acroread", 0x0003B8BC, 0x0003B8C4)  argc = 1
vorpal-blade:~: strace acroread |& grep exec
execve("/mit/acro/arch/i386_linux24/bin/acroread", ["acroread"], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0
execve("/mit/acro_v5.0.5/arch/i386_linux24/bin/acroread", ["/mit/acro_v5.0.5/arch/i386_linux"...], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0
execve("/mit/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/i386_linux24/bin/acroread", ["/mit/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/i386_li"...], [/* 45 vars */]) = 0
execve("/afs/athena/software/acro_v5.0.5/distrib/i386_linux24/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread", ["/afs/athena/software/acro_v5.0.5"...], [/* 52 vars */]) = 0

	Jonathon

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