Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!patnaik
From: patnaik@brl-adm.ARPA (William Stanberg )
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: yellow pages on IRIS 4D
Keywords: yp, IRIS 4D
Message-ID: <16611@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 22 Jul 88 21:18:42 GMT
Reply-To: patnaik@nrl-lcp.arpa (Gopal Patnaik)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Distribution: comp.emacs
Organization: Naval Research Lab
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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.