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Re: rt 7.2A: /srvd/update_ws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 29 13:45:32 1990
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 13:45:09 -0500
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Wed, 28 Nov 90 21:56:17 -0500,
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 21:56:17 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Sender: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2A
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Update my workstation to 7.2, with "mail" as one of my
configured services.
What's wrong:
Mkserv did not set NEWMAILCF to false when performing the
mkserv mail operation.
Ok, well if you have not changed sendmail.cf, then why should mkserv
hack on the NEWMAILCF variable? The standard public sendmail.cf has
some support for incoming mail, and if the workstation owner is not
changing the standard one, why should the workstation not then track the
current standard? (I did bounce this rationale off a couple of other
people to make sure I wasn't talking nonsense).
I would consider it a bug if "mkserv" changed the NEWMAILCF variable
from "false" to "true". If that is what happened, please let me know,
and I'll look into it.
-Richard
