sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott) (04/13/89)
I have just received the newest version of ELM and I think that it is
great!
Now, I have two flavors of UNIX (HP/UX and DOMAIN/IX on an Apollo DN3500).
The HP/UX version works like a champ (no surprise there, eh, Dave Taylor?)
The Apollo version works OK with a minor bug (which can be fixed by
running ELM in a vt100 window)
The bigger problem is this:
The Apollo distributed file system references everything by a system root
(//). So, for example, home directories are of the sort //{node}/users/foo,
etc. Now, ELM when finding a person's home directory (from /etc/passwd,
I presume ;-)), strips the initial / leaving /{node}/users/foo, which
does NOT exist in the file system. I know that a call to access is failing
which causes the returned error. And I know that I can strip off the
//node part in init.c. But, if I do that, then I can only run elm from
my node.
Question is: Has anybody turned in fixes or mentioned the proper sources
to modify to allow ELM to work properly on Apollos? Or, a bigger question
is, how are these sort of things handled routinely in the Apollo world.
I feel quite certain that this thing happens all of the time (that is,
reading the home directory from /etc/passwd).
Any help would appreciated
Thank you very much in advance!
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