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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: problems with the UUCP maps--duplicate node names
- References: <C16D9K.pA@revcan.rct.ca> <1993Jan21.191902.5445@til.til.com>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:01:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.170110.25032@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <1993Jan21.191902.5445@til.til.com>,
- posted to comp.mail.uucp,
- erik@til.com wrote:
- >
- >I, for one, wouldn't have *any* problem with having to send a new map entry
- >in *monthly*. After all, it's just a trivial cron job, and it would solve
- >the obsolete entry problem.
-
- Would you like to be on the receiving end of 10,000+ such
- monthly cron jobs?
-
- If it's a cron job, and the person administering the machine
- leaves, but the obsolete entry continues to be submitted by
- cron (the assumption is that the replacement admninistrator is
- either ignorant about the cron job or the maps, or incompetent),
- how is the problem solved?
-
- How would you have cron validate the information in the map
- entry?
-
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- Bruce Lilly ...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
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