Re: tramp on xemacs

2001-01-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Bruce Ingalls wrote: > tramp.el is missing a >(require 'advice) Okay, I've added this. > I see Compiling ~tramp/lisp/tramp.el...done Warning: The following > functions are not known to be defined: coding-system-p, > process-coding-system, set-buffer-process-coding-syste

odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
I noticed this odd sequence of tests for perl in my tramp debug buffer: $ test -x /bin/perl5 ; echo tramp_exit_status $? tramp_exit_status 1 $ test -x /usr/bin/perl5 ; echo tramp_exit_status $? tramp_exit_status 1 $ test -x /usr/sbin/perl5 ; echo tramp_exit_status $? tramp

Re: odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Chris Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > then issuing this command is quite fragile already.) In the > beginning, I assumed that every Unix host had a /bin/sh and that "exec > /bin/sh" would be a good way to start a known shell from the > beginning. Would it be possible to have ( or perhaps

Re: odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Kai Großjohann wrote: > > The only reason that tramp-remote-sh exists is that "exec /bin/sh" is > the very first command that's issued by Tramp, so that it at least > knows how to set the prompt and stuff like this. Isn't $SHELL set at remote login? You can usually look at /etc/shells to see wh

Re: odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Perhaps certain commands should be setq()ed. You do not need to unalias ls, if you call \ls which invokes the original ls. I tested this command on solaris's /bin/sh, which is _not_ xpg4 compliant. It still works. ls --color=auto only works for gnu ls, and probably only gnu ls that is less tha

Re: odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Chris Green
Bruce Ingalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps certain commands should be setq()ed. > You do not need to unalias ls, if you call >\ls Didn't know this factoid - thanks you've saved me from having to type /bin/ls everytime I mean it. > which invokes the original ls. I tested this comman

Re: odd search order looking for perl?

2001-01-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Why is /usr/bin/perl checked last? Seems to me to be the most > likely place to find it. Why not use something akin to > tramp-sh-program to allow users to specify odd locations for perl? Tramp must check for perl5 first, since on those systems wher

tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.436 2000/12/15 23:36:40 grossjoh Exp $); only telnet methods work

2001-01-17 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
--bug report follows this line-- I've tried tu, su, sudu, multiu/telnet/sudo and of all these connection methods, only tu seems to work. This is a new (to me) machine, so it is possible that I'm doing something wacky. Here is the output after toggle-debug-on-error for one of the failing metho