From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sysyphus@crl.com (Danny R. Brown) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:24:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: What is lonex? Message-ID: 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! ************************************************************************* * A Personal Message from * BASILISK * * Danny R. Brown * "Try our other fine flavors!" * * ( sysyphus at crl.com ) * (404) 392-1691 * * Pager:(404)397-0516 * LYNC host mode * ************************************************************************* Received: from wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) with ESMTP id PAA16920; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 15:01:03 +1100 Received: (from sms at localhost) by wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com (8.6.10/8.6.12) id TAA04159; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:59:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:59:39 -0800 From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199512190359.TAA04159 at wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com> To: oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, sysyphus at crl.com Subject: Re: What is lonex? Hi - > From: "Danny R. Brown" > 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 Received: from dolphin by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) with SMTP id PAA00802; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:05:34 +1100 Received: by dolphin (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA14311; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:05:45 +1100 From: wkt@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <9602050405.AA14311 at dolphin> Subject: Happy New Year To: oldunix at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:05:45 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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 Received: from dolphin by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) with SMTP id JAA01828; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:23:15 +1100 Received: by dolphin (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA27644; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:22:59 +1100 From: wkt@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <9602052222.AA27644 at dolphin> 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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 Received: from dolphin by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) with SMTP id KAA01873; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:03:38 +1100 Received: by dolphin (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01070; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:03:18 +1100 From: wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <9602052303.AA01070 at dolphin> 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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