9 Feb
2023
9 Feb
'23
1:56 a.m.
On 2/8/23 1:39 PM, segaloco wrote:
At least as far as I can glean from manuals, there is
the "trouble"
command circa UNIX/TS 4.0 which was "a front end for the Piscataway
Change Management Tracking System (CMTS)".
This was used to report issues over uucp to Piscataway where they
would then be transformed into Modification Requests, examples of
which in the form of the request form *and* a list of 1980-1983
changes are in Sys V literature I've scanned.
The utility would request:
- The user name
- Their location
- Phone number
- Type of request: Hardware, software, documentation, enhancement, and
unknown
- System: Product in need of support (usually unix)
- Release (can be N/A)
- Severity: 1 - highest 4 - lowest
- Date
- Abstract/Summary
- Detailed Description
There is a note here too that unless stated otherwise, reports may be
selected for publication in the "Mini-System Newsletter".
Fascinating. Thanks for the details. I did a quick search in the source
archive and all I could find were these:
NetBSD-5.0.2/external/bsd/openldap/dist/doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf
OpenBSD-4.6/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/doc/trouble.texi
OpenBSD-4.6/usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING
V10/cmd/icon/docs/trouble.roff
pdp11v/usr/man/a_man/man8/trouble.8
pdp11v/usr/man/u_man/man1/trouble.1
Anybody know what pdp11v is? or where the source code for the utility
is? Did it send email, or what?
Thanks,
Will