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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:49:41 -0400
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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To: Edward Hill <edhill@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help attaching locker
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Edward Hill wrote:
> "attach -n 6.111" works, letting me access the locker. However, I 
> really need to use "setup 6.111" so that all the correct paths and 
> env's are set. "setup 6.111" fails when it tries to attach 6.111 
> with authentication.

There are arcane ways of doing "setup 6.111" without authentication, but 
it'd be easier to fix the attach problem.


> I don't know how to find someone's UID but I am the only person in 
> the class who cannot successfully attach. What is the significance 
> of 32768? I am an exchange student from Cambridge University just 
> here for this year - would this make my account different to 
> everyone else's?

Not really different, but might account for the high UID.  32768 is half 
of 2^16, and used to be an upper limit to UIDs.  Older computers are 
likely to have problems dealing with the fact that your UID is so large. 
  I think the best approach now is to contact the people who maintain 
the 6.111 locker (or the people who maintain h-p-lovecraft.mit.edu), and 
ask them if they think your UID might be causing this problem.

Sincerely,
  Jacob Morzinski                    jmorzins@mit.edu
  MIT SIPB