[935] in SIPB-AFS-requests
mail aliases, project.*charon* volumes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jun 15 16:02:47 1993
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 16:00:54 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: ckclark@mit.edu
Cc: charon-maintainers@athena.mit.edu, sipb-staff@athena.mit.edu,
In-Reply-To: <9306151825.AA17929@oliver.MIT.EDU> (message from Calvin Clark on Tue, 15 Jun 1993 14:25:32 -0400)
Chill, Calvin.
Tell me exactly what alias you tried to add. Send me a script of what
you did after editing /etc/aliases, and the result. I will be glad to
work with you to figure out what's going wrong and to improve the
documentation in the README file so that others do not have similar
problems in the future.
One possibility is that you're not putting the "@charon.LOCAL" at the
end of the alias in the alias file. This is necessary even at the end
of a pipe, e.g.,
foo-mtg: "|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail ..."@charon.LOCAL
We've already had enough arguing about
/afs/sipb/project/{,dec-,new-}charon. Everyone agrees that
/afs/sipb/project/dec-charon should become /afs/sipb/project/charon
after all data in the other two directories that is not replicated
elsewhere is moved into it. No one has done it yet because no one has
had time. I've done my part, I believe, by making sure that all of
the stuff I maintain is in /afs/sipb/project/dec-charon rather than in
either of the other two directories. I can't do much more than that
-- I didn't put the files in the other directories and don't know
what's safe to [re]move.
As for /afs/sipb/project/charon-backup, that's a volume I created when
trying to backup charon to disk when we were having disk problems last
week. I deleted the mountpoint when the crisis was over, but forgot
to release the project volume. I've now done that.
The ease/sendmail stuff isn't local to charon because NONE of the
definitive sources for the stuff on charon is supposed to be local to
it -- it's all supposed to be in /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/dec-charon,
so that it gets up (more) regularly and so that it's editable when not
logged into charon. I thought most of the people actively doing work
on charon were aware of this; I'm sorry if you were not.
jik
