Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!adm!news From: mail-support%cernvax.cern.ch@pucc.princeton.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Warning: Failed mail to VMS host Message-ID: <25047@adm.brl.mil> Date: 19 Nov 90 19:36:50 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 118 Your message to <@DxMINT.cern.ch:OLAVI%13411.decnet.CERN@CERNVAX> could not be delivered. The error message was: Deferred: %MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error openning as output This message is equivalent to the DECnet-VAX error message: -SYSTEM-F-EXDISKQUOTA, disk quota exceeded The reason why your message could not be delivered is caused by the fact that your correspondants account has ran out of diskquota. Please contact your correspondant (by phone or otherwise) and tell him about this problem. ====== The start of Your original message ====== UNIX-WIZARDS Digest Tue, 13 Nov 1990 V11#030 Today's Topics: Re: Alias to change path on the fly - ALTERNATIVE uurec (bnews) fails - need help Re: rcp behavior Re: asserts and unexpected returns (was: Re: Assert) Re: Duplicating ASCII bel in the tty driver (was Re: Changing tty drivers) Info needed on Accelerator Cards Mods to make ucb mail use POP? Re: replacement getwd(3). Problems with July 90 release of RISC6000 Re: asserts and unexpected returns (was: Re: Assert) ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" Subject: Re: Alias to change path on the fly - ALTERNATIVE Date: 11 Nov 90 19:32:02 GMT Sender: News Administrator To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil In paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) writes: >As an alternative solution I'd use a symbolic link to the bin and >delete it and recreate it as required. Ln -s isn't portable, as I'm sure you know. Hmmm. -Richard ----------------------------- From: Frank Kaefer Subject: uurec (bnews) fails - need help Date: 12 Nov 90 02:31:15 GMT To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil Dear Readers, I have a problem with bnews's "uurec" command. Every article that is piped to "uurec" (these articles were sent using sendnews) fails with the error (in news/lib/errlog): Nov 11 21:29 Unknown inews: Cannot get user's name Any pointers, fixes, diffs etc. appreciated. Thanks a lot for every help in advance ! Cheers, Frank -- | Frank Kaefer | fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org | Starnberg, Germany | | Compuserve: 72427,2101 | Internet: fkk@Germany.Sun.COM | | unido!sunde!fkaefer | postmaster@Germany.Sun.COM | | THE POWER OF SUN (Scott McNealy) | ----------------------------- From: David Collier-Brown Subject: Re: rcp behavior Date: 9 Nov 90 14:20:00 GMT To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: >"rcp srcfile host:destfile" is effectively equivalent to > rsh host "cat >destfile" If the local system has all of the source file in its NFS cache, and the >cache doesn't time out too soon, this should work. Interesting... I hadn't thought about the effects of caching when I said for i in *; do rcp foo my_Sun3_280:/tmp/foo & done I was disappointed and a bit puzzled when multiple copies of a non-zero-size foo produced a zero-size /tmp/foo. --dave ps: I was also bemused when my perfmeter window turned solid black - I should have suspected an r-command would be expensive (:-)). -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave or just Willowdale, Ontario, | postmaster@{nexus.}yorku.ca CANADA. 416-223-8968 | work phone (416) 736-5257 x 22075 ----------------------------- From: "John F. Haugh II" Subject: Re: asserts and unexpected returns (was: Re: Assert) Date: 12 Nov 90 07:25:22 GMT X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die. To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil In article <4157@awdprime.UUCP> daveb@bach.austin.ibm.com (Dave Burton) writes: >I ignored this the first time around: >The System V Programmer's Reference Manual also does not include