Problem with SOUP packing files

Problem with SOUP packing files

[Eze Ogwuma]

Hi, 

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.

The server uses Gnus v5.3

The tgz file is correctly incorporated by Gnus on my home system.

Can someone please tell me what's going?

Thanks.

Re: Problem with SOUP packing files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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?

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Problem with SOUP packing files

[Eze Ogwuma]

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.

Re: Problem with SOUP packing files

[Eze Ogwuma]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> 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?
> 

What is the default Gnus 5.3 shell packing command?

Eze.

Re: Problem with SOUP packing files

[Eze Ogwuma]

Some of the discussion on this occurred off the list; so if anyone is
interested, I found that setting the "shell-file-name" variable for
emacs on the server to "/bin/sh" solved the problem. Csh, Ksh and Tcsh
didn't work.

Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> 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.
> 
> The server uses Gnus v5.3
> 
> The tgz file is correctly incorporated by Gnus on my home system.
> 
> Can someone please tell me what's going?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

-- 
Eze Ogwuma