| Re: IDL and NIS - cd? [message #2157 is a reply to message #2152] |
Tue, 07 June 1994 06:43   |
knipp
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In article 115516@wpyx77.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de, kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Markus von Kienlin) writes:
> Hi IDL-folks,
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> we are running IDL 3.5.1 on an IBM RS6k/530h under AIX 3.2.5. Recently, we have installed yellow pages/NIS on our workstation cluster. All users now have their home-directory on only one workstation, which may be not the workstation running IDL. However, IDL seems to have a problem when the directory from which it is launched is only mounted by NIS(automount):
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> Giving the command: "cd, current=test" comes back with the error message:
> "% Unable to get working directory." This prevents execution of utilities like "pickfile". This only occurs when the keyword current is given.
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> Has anybody encountered this difficulty? Is this due to the symbolic links in the file system hirarchy across the network? Are there workarounds?
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> Please, mail your replys to kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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> Thanks and cheers,
> Markus
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For IDL 3.1.1 (sunos sparc) (Sun SparcStation 1) and NIS implemented
it works perfectly well, no matter on which directory it is started.
Seems to me more to be a problem with IBM / AIX :-)
Karlheinz
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