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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 22 03:57:06 1994
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 03:57:02 -0500
Some of the things I found after installing the tar files in
/mit/linux/packages:
dash.tgz is missing the following files:
/usr/athena/include/X11/bitmaps/{console.xbm,gray}
/usr/athena/include/X11/bitmaps/{arrow,question,Dash.xbm}
/usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/{Console,Dash}
misc.tgz is missing /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-deafults/Mwm and
/usr/athena/lib/X11/system.mwmrc.
A note for the documentation: having an Athena account with a local
homedir works beautifully, as long as you remember to create the
homedir and put something in it. If xlogin sees an empty homedir, it
will assume it's a dangling mount point and remove it.
(If the above is unclear, I mean an /etc/passwd entry like
ghudson:3622:...:/home/ghudson:/bin/tcsh
)
Reading mail works fine (it incorporates into my local home directory),
although this is my first test of sending mail. I assume we still have
to deal with the issues of /bin/mail and emacs mh-e.
We dp have at least one user (wanderer) who tried to install dash and
xlogin and had trouble as a result of the missing files; I'll explain
things to him.
At any rate, with all those issues taken care of, I have a more or less
quiche-looking Athena workstation in my dorm room, except that I'm using
a local home directory, much faster than going through AFS. Very good
work.
--GBH
