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- From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
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- Subject: Re: .forward on multiple systems
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 00:40:43 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
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- Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
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- References: <1993Jan12.214702.20374@alw.nih.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan12.214702.20374@alw.nih.gov>, weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
- |> I have what is probably a common problem. I want to have a .forward
- |> such as the following:
- |>
- |> "|/xxx/yyy/zzz/bin/program"
- |>
- |> so that "program" will work like ``deliver'' to deliver my mail. Now, the
- |> problem is that my home directory is mounted by a hundred or so machines
- |> of different architectures.
- (further detail deleted)
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- This may not be optimal for you -- but the new Berkeley version can
- define a ".forward path". For example:
-
- OJ$z/.forward.$j:$z/.forward
-
- would first look for .forward.hostname, and if that was not found would
- try .forward. You would then put the invocation of the program in
- .forward.daedalus.dcrt.nih.gov and "weisen@daedalus.dcrt.nih.gov" in
- .forward.
-
- eric
-