patnaik@brl-adm.ARPA (William Stanberg ) (07/23/88)
We are running GNUEMACS 18.51 on an IRIS 4D. The machine is running yellow pages. When you use ~rob for example, we get the message "rob is not a registered user". (rob is not in the local /etc/passwd) If you use ~root, however, it works. It appears that it does not use the yellow pages, but consults /etc/passwd instead. Our SUNs, also running yellow pages, work just fine. Apparently, we have not set up something correctly when we built GNUEMACS. As a byproduct, GNUEMACS on the IRIS fails to load the .emacs file, and gives a message: patnaik is not a registered user. E-mail replies directly to me, I don't know if this is of general interest.
Skywalker@cup.portal.com (07/25/88)
->We are running GNUEMACS 18.51 on an IRIS 4D. The machine is running yellow ->pages. When you use ~rob for example, we get the message "rob is not a ->registered user". (rob is not in the local /etc/passwd) If you use ~root, ->however, it works. It appears that it does not use the yellow pages, but ->consults /etc/passwd instead. Our SUNs, also running yellow pages, work ->just fine. Apparently, we have not set up something correctly when we built ->GNUEMACS. -> ->As a byproduct, GNUEMACS on the IRIS fails to load the .emacs file, and gives ->a message: patnaik is not a registered user. -> ->E-mail replies directly to me, I don't know if this is of general interest. The reason that it won't load .emacs is the same reason tat it doesn't recognize ~rob: ~ isn't a recognized user. I don't have easy access to the sources to look for the problem, but I got around the loading problem by changing the +scotth to just scotth in my /etc/passwd file (the + means to use YP). hope this helps, scott henry