Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!rrwood
From: rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood)
Subject: modeminit problems
Reply-To: rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood)
Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada.
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 22:47:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.224728.12716@contact.uucp>


Well, I did finally get Coherent UUCP talking to the world.  Thanks to those
who offered thir comments.  It turned out to be a problem with the modemcap
definitions (of course), as well as a bad connection at the end belonging
to the system I was trying to talk to.
 
A related curiousity I've discovered is that modeminit does not work when
invoked from the rc startup routine, though it works fine if invoked by
root once the system is up.  I know that at least one other person has
mentioned this problem, but I've not heard anyone offer an explanation or
a fix.  Granted, it's a trivial thing to manually call modeminit, but it
is a nuisance.
 
Oh-- before I end.  I'm involved in setting up a mail exchange between
students at a couple of high schools, and one of the things we'd like to do
is set up a mailing list that will allow a student to mail to many accounts
by just mailing to a single address (I know, use news...).  What's the usual
method of implementing such a thing?  Define a huge alias consisting of all
the users on the mailing list?  Or perhaps writing a shell routine to 
forward all received mail to a list of users?
 
-Roy Wood (rrwood@contact.uucp)