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Re: Preferences
- To: Steve Newman <snewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Preferences
- From: Alan Fletcher - Sun Ottawa SSE <alan.fletcher@Canada>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:14:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: "Your message with ID" <199709181551.KAA02449@egan.urbana.css.mot.com>
- Reply-to: Alan Fletcher - Sun Ottawa SSE <alan.fletcher@Canada>
- Sender: owner-pilotmgr@shadow
> Each time I run PilotManager, I have to configure it anew. It appears to be
> ignoring the preferences file, even though it updates it to the values
> reflected in the previous instantiation. Then, after PilotManager exits,
> the preferences file is reset to "factory defaults". I am running Solaris
> 2.5.1 on a Sparc Ultra-2.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
Steve,
I experienced this on a Sparc 2 with perl 5.003. I tracked down the problem
to running out of swap ( /tmp ) filespace. I cleaned up some of my memory
intensive applications and then all worked well.
Alan.
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