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// / //| // || \\| N E W S
// / // |// || |\\ Vol 1, Issue 3 February 1990
R o u n d T a b l e
Items of interest to participants of the GEnie Unix RoundTable
The RoundTable SysOps are:
Dave Weinstein......OLORIN Gary Smith..........GARS
Christopher Cilley..CC Randy Suess.........CHINET
Rick Mobley.........LRARK All Unix SysOps.....UNIXSYSOPS$
We strongly encourage you to contact any or all of us if you have -ANY-
comments or suggestions. This is -YOUR- RoundTable. We are here to make
your participation as pleasant and beneficial as possible.
ED editor notes
--
There have been several requests for back-issues of this newsletter.
Beginning today, the last month's Unix RT Newsletter will be posted to
the library when the new one is sent to subscribers. This way newcomers
to the GEnie Unix RoundTable will have full access to previous issues,
yet only subscribers will receive the most current issue.
Though it will tend to load up a library that tends toward garbage
collection anyway, I will be posting past issues (and past issues only)
in library 1, General Information. The naming convention will be as follows:
UNXNL-MM.YY where MM = month and YY = year
To make suggestions for this newsletter or note items you would like to see,
but don't - or if you would like to contribute with a short note, article or
column (1-2 paragraphs) send e-mail to GARS. There is a genuine need for RT
user participation in this newsletter. Think about it. Don't you have some
comment you have to make or script you just really like to use ?
The Unix RT newsletter is a 'once-a-month' quick drill, so suitable input
would include (but not restricted to) the following:
- reviews..
software, both commercial and the p.d. goodies posted in the library
hardware, ANY that nixen might need insight on
- what I call down and dirty. quick scripts that do something
- hip-shots. what do you like/dislike (keep it unix oriented)
Thanks, Gary glsrk!gars
REMINDER - This newsletter is being sent to you 'by request'. If you do
not wish to keep receiving it, e-mail a stop notice to GARS. On the other
hand, we would very much appreciate it if you would pass the word that we
do distribute this item near the tenth (10th) of each month to anyone on
GEnie who requests it, and will gladly add any name that is requested via
the same route - email to GARS.
FAST and NASTY, DOWN and DIRTY quick fix scripts that do something
------------------------------
Send me your little scripts that do neat things. We all use them, now
share them This newsletter is the perfect vehicle for that. e-mail them
to GARS. I will include one or two in each newsletter and eventually
edit them into one library of goodies (with credit, of course)
This month's Down and Dirty is not as short and sweet as I would like for
this feature, but it's really too brief to warrant library inclusion and
too good to waste, especially if you forget holidays. It is the product of
Steve Owens and off the net. [When GEnie Unix RT users start contributing
I'll use homegrown. Till then you gets what I finds :-)]
Now that the holidays are over, and people are starting to look
forward to next Christmas, I thought the following little shell script might
come in handy.
#! /bin/sh
# This file was wrapped with "dummyshar". "sh" this file to extract.
# Contents: christmas.sh
echo extracting 'christmas.sh'
if test -f 'christmas.sh' -a -z "$1"; then echo Not overwriting 'christmas.sh'; else
sed 's/^X//' << \EOF > 'christmas.sh'
Xnow=`date '+%j'` # Time from New Years to now.
Xnow=`expr $now + 6` # Add six days between Christmas and New Years.
Xif [ $now -gt 366 ]
Xthen
X now=`expr $now - 366` # After Christmas, adjust until New Years.
Xfi
Xecho "\nOnly `expr 366 - $now` days until Christmas!\n"
EOF
chars=`wc -c < 'christmas.sh'`
if test $chars != 265; then echo 'christmas.sh' is $chars characters, should be
265 characters!; fi
fi
exit 0
These lines added into your .profile, .login, etc, can keep you
informed as to how many more days you have to shop before next Christmas
rolls around, just like the big department stores do!
I tested this under sh(1) and it ran ok, so there shouldn't be
too many problems. Feel free to embelish as you need to get the point
across!
Why wait until next fall. Start now!
Remind yourself! Remind your friends! |-)
Have fun.
Steve Owens @ Micropen, Inc.
Tip for smart mailers and HDB admin crontab scripts
---------------------------------------------------
Here's a tip you may find useful if you're running HDB and a smart mailer
(such as smail). In the scripts: From Thad Floryan
/usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.admin, and
/usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanu
which are run from crontab, you'll notice lines like:
(echo "Subject: uu-status"; cat $TMP) | mail $MAILTO
If you append a "\n" to the echo string, forcing a blank line between the
"Subject:" and the mail body text, your mail headers won't get munged and
the mail text will appear in the proper place. For example:
(echo "Subject: uu-status\n"; cat $TMP) | mail $MAILTO
^^
add this
Some of the items in uudemon.cleanu are multi-line like the following:
(echo "Subject: uudemon.cleanup: HELP! PANIC! FIRE!\n"
echo "$LOGDIR/$i not directory! - remaking") | mail $MAILTO
(echo "Subject: uudemon.cleanup\n"
echo "unable to chdir to $LOGDIR/$i") | mail $MAILTO
So be sure you find and edit them all.
EVENTS events worth noting
------
ACTIVITY SCHEDULE
.................
RealTime Conferences: Tuesdays at 9:30 EST
Guest Conference schedule :
===== ========== --------
Tuesday, February 20th
Richard M. Stallman will be joining us to discuss the Free Software
Foundation and the GNU project.
- - - - - - - - - - -
Two reminders:
- non-Prime time uploads are free !
- Unix RT SysOps are not contest participants
UPLOAD CONTEST : Our first winner is Erik Ohrnberger !
--------------
From: OLORIN David H. Weinstein
To: E.OHRNBERGER Erik Ch. Ohrnberger
Sub: Upload Contest Winner
Congratulations on being the winner of the first Unix RoundTable
upload contest. For the first day of February, any time you spend in
the Unix RoundTable (and only in the Unix RoundTable -- other areas
will still charge) will be free.
Feel like some free time like Erik got ? Start posting those files.
We count the bytes posted. Unix RT SysOps don't participate, duplicates
in a different format gets thanks but no byte points.
Sub: Most bytes transferred
Gary, here are the top 3 uploaders for the period 12/15/89 - 01/15/90.
90 UEERRORS.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891220 32760 6 4 891229
91 PCOMM.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891222 154980 12 1 900111
92 SPELL.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891222 175140 8 1 900107
93 ZOO.ARC X E.OHRNBERGER 891222 153720 20 1 900113
100 COOKIE.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891224 74340 6 20 900112
101 MSDOSRDR.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891224 46620 8 1 900106
102 SC61.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891224 136080 7 19 900114
103 VTREE.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891224 18900 12 1 900112
104 XCOMM2.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891224 51660 16 16 900109
119 NOBS2.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 891227 17640 3 20 900108
185 SPACEWAR.ZOO X E.OHRNBERGER 900111 146160 8 20 900114
1008000
109 PERL1.ARC X A.SCHWARTZ 891225 350280 4 8 900112
110 PERL2.ARC X A.SCHWARTZ 891225 346500 2 8 891231
696780
107 GNUSITE 7 K.SMITH10 891224 20160 20 1 900114
108 MANIFSTO.GNU 7 K.SMITH10 891224 26460 11 1 900112
142 PERL3.TAR.Z X K.SMITH10 891230 496440 2 8 900112
160 ROFF.ARC X K.SMITH10 891231 30240 8 3 900110
161 MAN.SRC X K.SMITH10 891231 45360 18 21 900111
618660
rick@lrark.UUCP
Rules on duplicates:
ie: The same file with different format. Case in point ...
Compress is now posted in a couple of formats, including
.zoo and .shar
They can stay, so long as they are not in the same format. They
do not count as files for the upload contest, though (this is to
prevent 3 million versions of Elm).
Sub: Leading file accesses
Here are the top files by access for the period ending 01/15/90.
66 UUPCREAD.ME X ANDY 891130 7560 64 15 900113
68 INTERNET.ARC X J.JIMENEZ 891202 32760 53 1 900114
67 UUPC-IBM.ARC X ANDY 891130 137340 51 5 900113
rick@lrark.UUCP
(EOF)
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of General Electric Information Services Company, Xenix is a trademark of
Microsoft Corporation.The contents of this newsletter are copyright (c) 1990
and may be copied whole or in part only if original credit is included. The
GEnie UNIX RoundTable is not affiliated with AT&T.
ay be copied whole or in part only if original credit is included. The
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