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- From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
- Subject: Re: 'nobody' problem with 'co' and 'ci':
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:53:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.024046.9296@vlsi.polymtl.ca>, ayoye@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Stephane Ayotte) writes:
- |> We are currently experiencing a strange problem with the RCS utilities:
- |> whenever a file is checked-in or out of RCS, the file is tied to user
- |> 'nobody'. Note that this only happens on one particular machine ( a PI
- |> running 4.0.1 ). If one rlogin's to another machine and tries the 'co'
- |> or 'ci' operation, 'check' then reports the correct user name.
-
- As described, I'm not sure of many details, such as what's
- mounted where, who's logged in as who, whether the working file's
- owner, RCS *,v archive file's owner or RCS author or locker is set
- to nobody, ...
-
- But look at the following for some more clues:
-
- Look in the environment (type "env" at the prompt) of a session
- during which the failure is occurring, and see of LOGNAME and/or
- USER is set. Compare this with the environment of another
- session (perhaps an rlogin into another machine) where this
- failure doesn't occur. If LOGNAME and/or USER is set differently,
- try changing (and exporting) them in various combinations and see
- if the failure stops.
-
- Also read the man page for getlogin(3C) and getpwent(3C),
- which are the library utilities that RCS uses, in case that
- it doesn't use LOGNAME or USER. Perhaps some of the explanations
- on these man pages will give you clues of where to look.
-
- --
-
- I won't rest till it's the best ...
- Software Production Engineer
- Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
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