datta@lynx.uucp (Jayadatta N. Seetharamaiah) (12/26/90)
Hardware and Software environment. H/W Multibus - I Intel 80386 and the make is Intel-320. S/W AT&T UNIX Version 5.3.2. The queries: 1. Recently only we moved to UNIX from XENIX. Earlier we used to have an aliased user by name postmaster, whose actual recipient is some one else whose length of the user id doesnot exceed the limited 8 characters. Now on this system I cant have system wide alias ( but using in the file /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc with the entry as alias postmaster some name does work locally), but if some sends a mail to vigyan!postmaster it just bounces back instead of going to the user whose name is entered in system wide alias file. 2. In earlier OS namely XENIX, I used to have a parameter by which I used to control the start of the process of uucico for uucp. That was in /etc/default/uucp( the entry was startjob = YES or NO. But in the current version there is no such entry. With this entry if I set it to NO, anyone if uses mail command, the job will just be queued in the spool directory and will not spawn the process uucico. But in this version there is no such function to control the file transfer program uucico. Right now I am controlling in the crontab entry by allowing the system to call only between 2200hrs and 05-30 hrs(In india these are quarter charge hours). But during these hours also anyone sends mail, the process uucico will start immediately in addition with the invoking by cron in the stipulated time. What I want is uucico process should only be started by cron and not by any user. Thanks -Datta