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Reported by mitchb, 15 years ago.

This morning, I caught the following in a DSN:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

"|/usr/bin/dsmail -A -d /var/spool/discuss/lsc-trailers"

(reason: Can't create output) (expanded from: <lsc-trailers-mtg@…>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----

550-Can't enter transaction 550- into meeting /var/spool/discuss/lsc-trailers: Connection reset by peer 550 5.0.0 "|/usr/bin/dsmail -A -d /var/spool/discuss/lsc-trailers"... Can't c reate output

This is due to a reversion in the recently updated debathena-discuss-server package. It results in dsmail being completely unable to work, but not via a bug in dsmail itself.

Ordinarily, if root@ATHENA.MIT.EDU has bits on a meeting, then user 'root' on that server is granted those bits. This means that to set up a mail feed to a discuss archive, you figure out what user your MTA will exec dsmail as, and adjust the ACL of the meeting to grant bits to that username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. With the revised debathena-discuss-server package, if you run discuss as some user on the local server and try to so much as add a non-public meeting, you get the "Connection reset by peer" error.

Downgrading only debathena-discuss from 10.0.8-0debathena1 to 10.0.7-0debathena3 does not fix the problem. Downgrading only debathena-discuss-server does fix the problem.

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

It would be cool if there was an easy way to access one's DFS share from Debathena.

smbclient is fine for the command line, but the GUI would be nice. Nautilus does not seem to know how to deal with kerberos authentication.

For the record, the smbclient command is:

smbclient -k win.mit.edu/dfs -D /profiles/j/joeuser

The dfsclient script in the Samba locker is no longer necessary, because smbclient now understands redirection.

Reported by alexp, 15 years ago.

3rd party software uses send_message in the swtools locker. It breaks if WGFILE isn't set (which it isn't). We should fix send_message, or set WGFILE (though that might be hard to do for people not using Athena dotfiles who might still use 3rd party software).