[5268] in testers
Re: problems with local-lockers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Dec 26 18:58:45 2002
Message-Id: <200212262358.SAA17269@dit.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:26:07 EST."
<200212262226.RAA03447@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:58:42 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
> >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.
Well, let's just try it. I edited the path in the scripts (both Sun
and Linux) to have a /mit... path in the R/W volume. if you want to
release it (sw.acro_v5.0.5) now we can see if anything breaks... or
let it release overnight, but then I won't be around until noon or so
tomorrow to fix anything that might have broken. I'll be around till around
7:30-7:45 or so...
Alex
