XENIX QIC Tape Questions

Jayadatta N. Seetharamaiah datta at lynx.uucp
Wed Dec 26 06:20:58 AEST 1990


Hardware and Software environment.
H/W Multibus - I Intel 80386 and the make is Intel-320.
S/W AT&T UNIX Version 5.3.2.

The queries:

1. Recently only we moved to UNIX from XENIX. Earlier we used to have
an aliased user by name postmaster, whose actual recipient is some one
else whose length of the user id doesnot exceed the limited 8 characters.
Now on this system I cant have system wide alias ( but using in the 
file /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc with the entry as alias postmaster some
name does work locally), but if some sends a mail to vigyan!postmaster
it just bounces back instead of going to the user whose name is entered
in system wide alias file. 

2. In earlier OS namely XENIX, I used to have a parameter by which
I used to control the start of the process of uucico for uucp.
That was in /etc/default/uucp( the entry was startjob = YES or NO.
But in the current version there is no such entry. With this entry
if I set it to NO, anyone if uses mail command, the job will just
be queued in the spool directory and will not spawn the process 
uucico. But in this version there is no such function to control
the file transfer program uucico. Right now I am controlling in
the crontab entry by allowing the system to call only between
2200hrs and 05-30 hrs(In india these are quarter charge hours).
But during these hours also anyone sends mail, the process uucico
will start immediately in addition with the invoking by cron in the
stipulated time. What I want is uucico process should only be
started by cron and not by any user.

Thanks 

-Datta



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