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INDEX ENTRY FOR REQ:
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Name: req - Email-based request tracking system
Version: 1.2.7, November 1994
Author(s): Remy Evard, Northeastern University <remy@ccs.neu.edu>
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/req.tar
Ftp source: ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/sysadmin/
Email: req@ccs.neu.edu
Size on the CD: 553 KB (partially compressed)
Description:
Req is a tracking system based around this paradigm: people with
problems or questions send requests via email to a group
responsible for dealing with those issues. Those requests are
assigned numbers that can be tracked and managed in various ways.
The group handling the requests needs to have access to a UNIX
computer or network.
Req was designed for a systems administration group but could be
applied to other groups as well.
Users send request mail to an alias. (For example, in our
original setup, mail was sent to "systems" or "help".) Their mail
is piped through a program which takes the mail, assigns it a new
request number, and puts a copy of the mail in file associated
with the number. That file will be used as a log of all the
events associated with the request.
-- Quoted from the docs/blurb file in the req distribution
Advertised architectures:
Tested on SunOS 4.1.3 and Ultrix 4.3, and apparently has run
on numerous other things. Yay perl.
Prerequisites:
Requirements
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- RFC-822 compliant mail
I.e, Internet standard mail.
- sendmail
It could probably work with other mailers with some very
minor work. I should note that unless you're running version
8.6.8 or later, you should upgrade for security reasons.
- Perl
I've only tested it on version 4.036, but it should work on older
versions.
- A C compiler and sh.
I've only built the C programs under SunOS 4.1.3 and Ultrix, but
they're pretty small and should be portable, or nearly so.
- A file system that your mail server and you as a user have access to.
NFS, AFS, whatever. But something.
Not required, but nice
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- Tcl 7.3, Tk 3.6
For the X interface.
- Emacs
For the emacs interface.
- Glimpse
For indexing and searching the requests. Available from
ftp.cs.arizona.edu:/glimpse