mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) (10/08/87)
/usr/ucb/mail still has a compiled in table of 'system names' for known systems. Maybe some kind soul could take that kind of crap out in the next release ? Lordy only knows what will happen if I ever set up a system here named, say, "ingres".... "ingres ing70 ingvax virus vlsi image esvax sesm ucbcad research arpavax mathstat ucbvax onyx cory eecs40" --mjr(); -- If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness... -Johnny Mnemonic
bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) (10/09/87)
In article <1407@osiris.UUCP>, mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > > /usr/ucb/mail still has a compiled in table of 'system names' > for known systems. Maybe some kind soul could take that kind of crap > out in the next release ? Lordy only knows what will happen if I > ever set up a system here named, say, "ingres".... This was fixed in July of 1984; you might want to upgrade to 4.3BSD, it's an awful lot better than what you're running. --keith