What is lonex?

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(a)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@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" <sms(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com> Message-Id: <199512190359.TAA04159(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com> To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, sysyphus(a)crl.com Subject: Re: What is lonex? Hi - 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. 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. 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 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(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com