Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 - Email .forward problem

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:35 AM 2/1/00  Dom Latter wrote:
> Jeff Lasman wrote:
> >
> > So either you're saying that no one in the world who uses unix (especially
> > Linux 5.2) on any other brand of system can make the ~/.forward file work,
> > because they don't have a Cobalt Interface, OR you're saying that the RaQ
> > is NOT using Linux 5.2.
>
> Wooh.  Over here in behind-the-times Yoorp, I'm still stuck on 2.2.10.

Attribution error is mine <wry grin>.

> My understanding is that the Cobalt distro is *based on* Red Hat 5.2.
> It would be nice to have the modifications documented...

Sure would <smile>...

> > Just like me painting my face and dancing around a campfire might make me
> > feel comfortable that the crop-gods will give me a better crop this
> > year.  But there's nothing there that'll actually do anything.
>
> Actually, I find that when it comes to getting computers to do what I
> want them to, rationality doesn't always help.  In particular if someone
> says "well changing that shouldn't make any difference" it's a hint
> that you should change it and see if it does.
>
> *Experience* tells me that sometimes doing things like restarting the
> daemon will clear out the problems, as Dennis says, however much the
> brain protests that it is impossible that it will do so.  The reason, I
> suppose, is that we are not dealing with perfect hardware or software.

I don't use .forward files, so I probably should not have opened my 
mouth.  But I know a company that relies completely on .forward files, and 
people change them every day, and their daemon has been running over a year 
now.

Of course, as you we both note, they're running RED HAT LINUX 5.2, not 
Cobal RH Linux 5.2.

Jeff

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