From: Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no, Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Problem with SOUP packing files
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:21:31 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970214152043.24139B-100000@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2raij68k5.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
On 14 Feb 1997, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > I'm using SOUP to transfer stuff between machines. Each time I've used
> > G-s-p to pack the SOUP files on the server, Gnus has exited with the
> > message "Couldn't pack packet". A tgz file has been left in my home
> > directory but the files in ~/SoupBrew are not deleted.
>
> This means that the packing shell command is not returning 0, for some
> reason:
>
> (if (zerop (call-process shell-file-name
> nil nil nil shell-command-switch
> (concat "cd " dir " ; " packer)))
> (progn
> (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil shell-command-switch
> (concat "cd " dir " ; rm " files))
> (gnus-message 4 "Packing...done" packer))
> (error "Couldn't pack packet."))))
>
> Perhaps you use a wonky shell?
I am using csh on the server.
Eze.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-14 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-12 23:53 Eze Ogwuma
1997-02-14 9:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-14 15:21 ` Eze Ogwuma [this message]
1997-02-14 19:53 ` Eze Ogwuma
1997-02-19 2:17 ` Eze Ogwuma
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