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Re: The .@sys question again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
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To: Luke Douglas <darkwing@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: The .@sys question again
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 01 Mar 1999 21:22:10 +0100
In-Reply-To: Luke Douglas's message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:20:47 -0500"
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> Mathematica creates configuration directories ~/.Mathematica.sysname and
> accesses it through the symlink ~/.Mathematica.@sys . Mathematica gives a
> fatal startup error if it can't read its home directory. I don't get the
> startup error under Transarc AFS, but I do under Arla; and I can verify the
> cause by noting that "cd ~/.Mathematica" or "cd ~/.Mathematica.@sys" fails.
> I can get a normal startup, though, by making a symlink from ~/.Mathematica
> to ~/.Mathematica.sysname .
Could you provide an exact command sequence that makes the error
happen, with proper error messages?
For me, this works:
p01:~$ cd foo
p01:~/foo$ mkdir bar.i386_linux6
p01:~/foo$ fs sysname
Current sysname is 'i386_linux6'
p01:~/foo$ ln -s bar.@sys bar
p01:~/foo$ touch bar.i386_linux6/testfile
p01:~/foo$ ls -l bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 d95-mah nogroup 8 Mar 1 21:18 bar -> bar.@sys
p01:~/foo$ ls -l bar/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 d95-mah nogroup 0 Mar 1 21:18 testfile
