[5267] in testers
Re: problems with local-lockers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 26 17:26:10 2002
Message-Id: <200212262226.RAA03447@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, jweiss@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:14:51 EST."
<200212191714.MAA26386@dit.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:26:07 -0500
> >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.
>
> This could be a real hassle- acroread is intricately bound to Netscape/Mozilla
> configuration settings that rely on these paths, and things would almost
> surely break and take a lot of work on my and Todd's part to fix if we changed
> this. I really don't want to mess around with this unless it's absolutely
> essential.
I'd be a little surprised if converting this to a /mit/ path breaks
things, since netscape and mozilla should have the relevant lockers
attached. OTOH, I don;t know if our web browser installations are
sufficient;y fragile that they'll break anyway. I wouldn't say it's
absolutely essential that we do this, but if we don't it pretty much
defeats the entire purpose of bringing the acro locker to local disk
on workstations.
Jonathon
