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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problems with email
Keywords: email, registry
Message-ID: <4b7d5e6e.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com>
Date: 9 Jul 90 16:16:12 GMT
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In article <1664@tuvie> mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature (on Apollos you never
> quite know :-(, but here comes my problem:
>
> Our mail works OK as long as the registry is available, but
> when the registry is down (we do not have slave registries), then 
> /bsd4.3/bin/mail will not deliver mail to the recipients. Now the 
> problem seems to be that the mailer cannot acquire the gid of mail, 
> but about this I'm not too sure.

I believe calls in <pwd.h> are eventually translated to registry calls, and
/etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc aren't just plain unstruct file either. The
only solusion is to have slave registry running somewhere else.

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