What is lonex?

What is lonex?

[Danny R. Brown]

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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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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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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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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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