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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: miscellaneous unix waffle questions
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:16:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.181622.2163@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- I have a mess 'o questions for those unix wafflers (hmmm...I didn't mean
- it to sound quite like that) out there regarding how they have things set
- up.
-
- First the config:
-
- - Linux public domain *nix
- - Taylor UUCP 1.03
- - Elm2.4.17
- - Smail3.1.28
- - C-news
- - Trn2.2/Tin1.1p4/NN6.4.18
- - Waffle 1.65
-
- All the Waffle to/from unix stuff like mail, news, etc. work just fine
- as far as I can see...
-
- And now for the questions...
-
- 1. I have all the /waffle/bin stuff set up with owner.group = bbs.bbs
- except the setname and mailin bianies, which are root.bbs and are
- also mode 4755...is that right?
-
- 2. When people mail from within Waffle to the Internet (ie...outside of waffle)
- the mail headers go out with the username of 'bbs', the owner of the
- Waffle binary. How can I get the headers to go out with the Waffle
- user's name so replies work (I already know about the mailin aliases
- I have to set up so Internet mail kicks to the waffle-only users) ?
-
- [...I might add that I don't have a /usr/ucb/mail command under linux
- and that I use 'elm' for it via a link since it's switch-
- compatible...]
-
- 3. What is the preferred way for people to mail to me/root/system so that
- it kicks to the normal o/s shell (where I have 'real' Elm) ? I do
- all my work in the shell under 'X' and don't really want to get into
- Waffle too much if possible.
-
- 4. When I shell out of Waffle when logged in as a generic joe-user, and I
- do a 'whoami' at the shell level, it shows me as 'bbs' even though
- the username I was logged in as is a real shell user. Shouldn't I
- be shown as 'myusername' in the shell ?
-
- Is there anything else I need to know that's peculiar in unix Waffle
- that differs from the way DOS Waffle is set up and works ?
-
- I'll be happy to summarize any responses and/or followups for Bill's FAQ...
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
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