Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!progress!erf From: erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Question: C-news & /bin/mail Message-ID: <1990Dec20.150245.28078@progress.com> Date: 20 Dec 90 15:02:45 GMT Sender: news@progress.com (The News User) Organization: Progress Software Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: ericf I'm running C-News patched through 1-Dec-1990, on an Intel UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 and have a couple of questions: (1) We got a version ctl message, and the mail reply failed. This happened because /bin/mail is stupid on this system, and it couldn't figure out version@uunet.uu.net as an address. I changed ctl/version to use mailx (which should work, but newsrun hasn't run yet). There have been other problems where C-News scripts call mail, but should call mailx. For example, when it sends mail from newswatch, it will only mail to users on the local machine. I once tried replacing /bin/mail with mailx, with disasterous results. Does anyone have any nice general solution to this problem? (2) This is about applying patches... I had to change spacefor so that it works on this system (no surprise there). When I install after a patch, it overwrites spacefor, so I have to manually make that change again. This also relates to (1) where I've made other little tweaks here and there to make things work better in our environment. Is there something I'm unaware of in the patch/install process that would inhibit installing over something that I've changed and alert me so that I don't have to tax my feeble brain and remember exactly where I've made changes? I admit it; I'm lazy. Any and all help would be appreciated, especially with the mail problem. /bin/mail on this system is depressingly stupid, and /usr/bin/mailx has some problems of its own. Information from anyone with direct experience in this environment would be especially welcome. Happy Holidays! -EricF -- Eric R. Feigenson UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!erf Progress Software Corp. Internet: erf@progress.com 5 Oak Park Bedford, MA 01730