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- maillog - repository for sprite-related mail, indexed by
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- This document describes the Sprite log, a repository for
- sprite-related mail. Mail sent to sspprriittee--lloogg will be stored
- in a directory in the sprite account, ~sprite/Log. Each
- message is stored in its own file.
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- The lloogg subdirectory of the Sprite log contains the messages
- themselves, which are numbered sequentially. The iinnddeexx
- subdirectory contains information to help users find mes-
- sages in the log. Each time a message is added to the log,
- its log entry number, originator, date sent, size, and sub-
- ject line are recorded in a number of files. Each message
- is entered in cchhrroonn, which is a chronlogically-ordered list-
- ing of all messages in the log. In addition, the message is
- entered in ffrroomm-_u_s_e_r, where _u_s_e_r is the account that sent
- the message.
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- Finally, the message is entered in files with names
- corresponding to the keywords associated with the message.
- If the message contains a KKeeyywwoorrddss:: line, the words on that
- line are taken to be keywords; otherwise, the non-trivial
- words in the subject line are used. Punctuation and case
- are ignored. Typical keywords include ``bug'', ``fix'', and
- the names of kernel modules, libraries, and programs.
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- As an example, consider a message sent from douglis to the
- Sprite log with the subject ``bug: fs recovery''. If the
- next message in the log were 00143, then the message itself
- would be stored in ~sprite/Log/log/00143, and a line like
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- 00143 douglis Mon Sep 14 12:01:14 1987 13 bug: fs recovery
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- would be written to the files cchhrroonn, ffrroomm--ddoouugglliiss, bbuugg, ffss,
- and rreeccoovveerryy in ~sprite/Log/index.
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- Note: the Sprite log is currently stored under Unix.
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- FFIILLEESS
- ~sprite/Log/log messages in the Sprite log.
- ~sprite/Log/index lists of messages by keyword.
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- Mail, sendmail, MH
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- KKEEYYWWOORRDDSS
- Sprite, log, index, keyword, bug, mail
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