Broken software using ULTRIX 1.2
Frederick M. Avolio
avolio at decuac.DEC.COM
Wed Jul 2 03:24:35 AEST 1986
In article <455 at phred.UUCP>, jeffp at phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke) writes:
> We recently "upgraded" ... to ULTRIX 1.2. ... the following don't work ...
> finger (core dumps occasionally)
Yeah. I don't remember the reason, but I recall occasional core dumps
on long lists of names. (It'll come to me in the dead of night
probably...) And I can remember making the fix. Just don't remember
what... In any event, I can send you a uuencoded version of one that
doesn't dump core. (Unless you ordered the one that dumped core :-).)
Let me know. (By the way, this code is changed in an attempt --
successful, I think, to un-UCB it. I mean, I odn't work in Evans *or*
Cory Halls! :-))
> sps
> top
> uw (windows program)
Structures in the kernel have changed (you would find the same
"problems" upgrading to 4.3BSD, I suspect). Recompile.
> sccs (admin command bombs)
If by bomb you mean it cannot create an initial SCCS file, yes I have
seen it ("cannot create lockfile" or some such error). I believe sccs
is trying to be smart and secure about how it creates things. It runs
as user 'sccs.' Change the mode on /usr/ucb/sccs to 755 and it should
work.
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