Subject: Re: Address Admin scripts

From: Tony Costa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 13:27:31 -0400 (EDT)

Mike,
I tried to type in a username to mail to that should be legal in our 
passwd file and it does not expand.
Do I need to make a change to the pine.conf?
Also have you heard that there are any problems with the default install 
of Pine from the Slackware distribution of Linux 1.2.13? If you can 
address a Linux question that specific I understand. 
I just need to know how to get an installable copy of Pine for Linux.
Thanks,

On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mike Brudenell wrote:

> Do you really need to build an adderss book file from your password file?
> Assuming we're talking about the UNIX version of Pine it happily looks up
> a simple username (eg, 'pmb1') in the password file and then fully expands
> it (in my case to 'Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>')
> 
> Or are you using the PC/Windows version of Pine, in which case I can
> understand it being perhaps desirable to set up such an address book
> (although we don't here, without our 10,000 registered users!).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK
> Tel: +44-1904-433811  FAX: +44-1904-433740  http://www.york.ac.uk/~pmb1/
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Tony Costa wrote:
> 
> > I am rather new to Unix, Pine admin but not new to email admin. Could 
> > someone point me in the direction of address book from passd file admin 
> > scripts to keep my address book up to date?
> > Also anything else that might make it easier to admin a several hundred 
> > acct pine mail system.
> > Thanks
> > 
>

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:15:42 +0100 (BST)

> passwd file and it does not expand.

Hmmm... did you pull the binary version of Pine or compile it yourself? 
Are you just using a local password file (/etc/passwd) or are you using
NIS?  If the latter and you compiled Pine yourself did it link against any
additional libraries that support NIS passwd lookups? 

For example, on our SGI systems under IRIX 4 the default getpwXXX routines
in the standard C library only checked the local passwd file for entries,
and knew nothing about NIS.  Instead we had to explicitly link against the
-lsun library to get NIS support.  (Fortunately as of IRIX 5 this is now
the default).

> Do I need to make a change to the pine.conf?

Nope... in fact you have to set a configuration flag to *suppress* the
lookup (quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file).  (It might be worth checking
this hasn't accidentally got set!)

> I just need to know how to get an installable copy of Pine for Linux.

I'm afraid I know nothing at all about Linux in particular; we don't have
any boxes running it here.  Sorry!

Cheers,