Path: utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Help with ELM on Apollo BSD 4.2
Message-ID: <5038@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:22:49 GMT
References: <185@camdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <185@camdev.UUCP> sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott) writes:
+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.

Huh? Are you saying ELM does or does not strip off the "extra" leading '/'?

In fact, ELM does get the home directory from /etc/passwd, but it absolutely
does not alter it before using it. It does not strip off any leading '/'.
Are you sure the double '/' is given in the home directory field of /etc/passwd?
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