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- From: erik@til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
- Subject: Re: problems with the UUCP maps--duplicate n
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.010957.28527@til.til.com>
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- Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan23.170110.25032@blilly.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:09:57 GMT
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- In article 25032@blilly.uucp, bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- >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?
-
- Not if I had to weed through them by hand. To what extent can this entire
- procedure be automated? To what extent are the current map entries checked
- by the rutgers team? I suspect that they aren't checked at all - for
- evidence of this, look at the latitude and longitude values. If this is the
- case, it's pretty easy to automate the job. It's still a lot of email to
- handle, but only a computer needs to look at it.
-
- >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?
-
- Automatic submission by cron handles the problem of making the map entry for
- machine <x> die when machine <x> leaves the uucp network - because either the
- machine is no longer executing *at all*, or because it's disconnected and the
- automatically emailed map entry no longer makes it off the machine. It does
- not *automatically* handle the job of updating the map entries list of sites
- that machine <x> talks to. I think that this could be done, at least partially,
- by an sed script looking at the /etc/uucp/poll file (for a Sun, at least).
-
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