gam@amdahl.UUCP (09/18/87)
I'm really delighted with HoneyDanBer: the job grading, the intellegent handling of various kinds of modems, the greater organization of files under /usr/spool/uucp, the more readable filenames in /usr/lib/uucp. Great stuff! But I am disappointed about the disappearance of /usr/lib/uucp/ADMIN, which used to hold the text descriptions of the site names, reported by the -v flag of uuname. uuname now has no -v flag. What now? I'm considering restoring the -v flag to uuname, and changing the file name (in the HDB tradition) to 'Descriptions' or something like that. Anybody else out there deal with this problem? I think the users should be able to get information about the sites than just a list of their names. Comments/suggestions? I was also disappointed to see LOGFILE go away, replaced by individual files under /usr/spool/uucp/.Log. Well, it *is* nice to compartmentalize the log files by site and by command as they did, but now the continuous history is lost. That is to say, you can't get a straight chronological list out of the /usr/spool/uucp/.Log files. I've resolved this by creating a file /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/logfile, which is the same as all the stuff under .Log but in chronological order. The files under .Log are retained, for convienience. But this is not to say HDB is a bad thing. It's great! Pick yourself up a copy today! -- Gordon A. Moffett gam@amdahl.amdahl.com ~ Let us break these bonds assunder! ~ ~ Let us cast these yokes away from us! ~