gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (11/23/90)
There was this Bourne shell script this guy wrote which would re-route queued up
UUCP mail for one site that was presumed dead and rerouted it to other
sites, to avoid the cancellation of this mail. It was called 'reroute' or
'requeue' or something like that. I have lost it and have no record
of where or who I got it from.
The script assumed you had smail 2.5 and HDB UUCP. It works fine with
smail 3.1, too. It expected you to rewrite your paths database so that
the requeued mail would avoid this dead site, then you run the script,
giving it the dead site's name, and it would look for any rmail jobs queued up
for that site, reroute them and cancel the previous job.
So, if you have this script, please send me a copy, or post it to alt.sources;
I'm sure many people would find it useful.
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Gordon Moffett {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!gam
gam@netcom.uucplcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) (11/26/90)
gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) writes: >There was this Bourne shell script this guy wrote which would re-route queued up >UUCP mail for one site that was presumed dead and rerouted it to other >sites, to avoid the cancellation of this mail. It was called 'reroute' or >'requeue' or something like that. I have lost it and have no record >of where or who I got it from. I have a copy of a c program called 'reroute' that does this. It was written by Lenny Tropiano (lenny@icus.icus.com). I don't think that it's the same program you're referring to, but it does what you describe. It does not know anything about the pathalias database or smail, but simply allows you to requeue a job with a new path. It works with HDB UUCP; I don't know about others. I thought the author might speak up, but if you can't find it elsewhere, I'll be glad to mail you a copy. -Lee Ziegenhals -lcz@sat.datapoint.com, ...!uunet!dptspd!lcz
gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (11/26/90)
# I wrote:
#
# >There was this Bourne shell script this guy wrote which would re-route queued up
# >UUCP mail for one site that was presumed dead and rerouted it to other
# >sites, to avoid the cancellation of this mail. It was called 'reroute' or
# >'requeue' or something like that. I have lost it and have no record
# >of where or who I got it from.
#
In the referenced article, lcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) writes:
# I have a copy of a c program called 'reroute' that does this. It was written
# by Lenny Tropiano (lenny@icus.icus.com). I don't think that it's the same
# program you're referring to, but it does what you describe.
Yes, I've already gotten a copy of Tropiano's program, but it is *not* what
I was looking for. His 'reroute' program expects *you* to figure out what
jobs to reroute, and what paths to use, etc. I believe computers are meant
to serve people, not the other way around. The shell script I am looking
for lets you say (for example) "reroute amdcad", and it will look up all
the rmail jobs for amdcad, and requeue them (with your new pathalias database)
to alternative paths.
I think a neighbor of ours has a copy of this shell script, and I will post it
to alt.sources when I get a copy of it.
Thanks, anyway.
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Gordon Moffett {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!gam
gam@netcom.uucp