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! -- Steve Scott UUCP: {killer|texbell}!camdev!sscott Motorola, Inc. Telephone : 1-817-232-6317