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- From: dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel Len Schales)
- Subject: Re: Help with execing shell scripts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144653.4835@engr.LaTech.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:46:53 GMT
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- Mark Whidby (zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov12.193642.12411@engr.latech.edu>, dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel
- : Len Schales) writes:
- : <stuff deleted>
- : |> Name=misc
- : |> Type=1
- : |> Port=70
- : |> Path=exec:-g misc:/bin/gonntp
- : |> Host=aurora.latech.edu
- : <stuff deleted>
- : |>
- : |> The main thing is to make sure everything is in the gopherdir,
- : |> you may want to try running gopherd non-chroot() to test things
- : |> out. But it does work, I have dozens and dozens of shell links
- : |> in my gopherspace.
- :
- : Well I've started playing with gonntp today - it's fun. But I'm running
- : with -c (don't tell anybody!!). However, I find that I need to put gonntp
- : in the bin directory in the gopherhome. I haven't got anything else there
- : (perl for example). Anybody understand this? (I'm running the beta 1.1
- : version BTW).
- : --
- : _____________________________________________________________
- : Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
-
-
- Having never run non-chroot() I'd never noticed this, but apparantly
- gopherd prepends the gopher-home directory to the path if you
- are running non-chroot(). See special.c in the gopherd source.
-
- Danny
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