From: sysyphus@crl.com (Danny R. Brown)
Subject: What is lonex?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:24:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951218171736.5935B-100000@crl12.crl.com> (raw)
Greetings:
I've been playing with the mail system. Mailing to root brings up
can't find usr/lonex/xmail
This in itself is not a problem, as I only tried this to see what would
happen. However, I am curious as to what the lonex directory is (was).
It does not appear in my listing of the contents of tape 2.
Cheers!
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From: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com>
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To: oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, sysyphus at crl.com
Subject: Re: What is lonex?
Hi -
> From: "Danny R. Brown" <sysyphus at crl.com>
> Subject: What is lonex?
LONEX _was_ "Laboratory Office Network EXperiment" - a project
I worked on for many years (we started with V7) and which just ended
a couple or three years ago. We used 11/44s and 70s right up till
the end - by which point they were all running 2.11BSD. It was a
really neat system - had a common user namespace (YP before there was
YP;-)) amoungst all systems, a (for the time) spiffy text-mode menuing
interface to shield users from the fact it was Unix and so on.
> I've been playing with the mail system. Mailing to root brings up
> can't find usr/lonex/xmail
The sendmail.cf as distributed in the 'GENERIC' system kit wasn't
cleaned up enough. That reference to a local mailer that I use
should have been removed.
Several things to note:
1) the sendmail.fc file does not exist - on purpose. You'll need to
perform step 2 and then do a "/usr/lib/sendmail -bz" to freeze
(pre-process for faster loading) the config file.
2) the sendmail.cf file is not suitable for use without customizing
(filling in the domain name, relay system, etc).
3) The aliases database (/usr/lib/aliases.{dir,pag}) are not present,
on purpose. You'll want to edit /usr/lib/aliases to suit local
tastes and then do "/usr/lib/sendmail -bi" to create the dbm
aliases database.
> This in itself is not a problem, as I only tried this to see what would
> happen. However, I am curious as to what the lonex directory is (was).
It's a directory I keep local works of art such as the local mailer
'xmail' which knew the details about routing mail within the "Office
Network" we ran.
> It does not appear in my listing of the contents of tape 2.
It shouldn't have been there at all.
You should have something like:
# Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
Mlocal, P=/usr/lonex/bin/xmail, F=lsSDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=xmail -f $g $u
in sendmail.cf. Simply reverse the commented status of the two
lines to be:
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
# Mlocal, P=/usr/lonex/bin/xmail, F=lsSDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=xmail -f $g $u
And you'll be all set.
Steven Schultz
sms at wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com
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From: wkt@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
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Subject: Happy New Year
To: oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:05:45 +1100 (EST)
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Hi all,
I thought I'd mail to the old unix list to see if you were all
still alive & hope the new year goes well for you. It's been a quiet few
months. I've not heard back from Keith Bostic about his archive. However,
I'm presenting a paper about PDP Unixes at the local Australian Unix Users
Group summer conference next week, should be fun.
Cheers,
Warren wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au
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From: wkt@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
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Subject: Re: Happy New Year
To: Milo.Velimirovic at uwlax.edu
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:22:59 +1100 (EST)
Cc: oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
In-Reply-To: <9602051823.AA01619 at fingers.acs.uwlax.edu> from "Milo Velimirovic" at Feb 5, 96 12:23:36 pm
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In atricle by Milo Velimirovic:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm still alive and well. Thanks for hte note.
>
> I have precious little time to spend with my pdp11's. I'm still looking for
> a legal Unix to run on either my 11/34 or 11/44. In the meantime I make do
> with a NeXT cube.
>
> If possible please make your paper publicly available.
You can now get it at http://minnie/Seminars :-)
I'm still working on licences.
Warren
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From: wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
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Subject: Re: Happy New Year
To: wkt at dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:03:17 +1100 (EST)
Cc: Milo.Velimirovic at uwlax.edu, oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
In-Reply-To: <9602052222.AA27644 at dolphin> from "Warren Toomey" at Feb 6, 96 09:22:59 am
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In atricle by Warren Toomey:
>
> In atricle by Milo Velimirovic:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm still alive and well. Thanks for hte note.
> >
> > I have precious little time to spend with my pdp11's. I'm still looking for
> > a legal Unix to run on either my 11/34 or 11/44. In the meantime I make do
> > with a NeXT cube.
> >
> > If possible please make your paper publicly available.
>
> You can now get it at http://minnie/Seminars :-)
Er, um, http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/Seminars/
Warren
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