-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 19:51 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Node data update On 2013-11-18 21:17, Sampsa Laine wrote: On 18 Nov 2013, at 00:16, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2013-11-18 01:13, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-11-17 23:43, Steve Davidson wrote: Go for it! In the end though, I would like to see a distribution list so that others may take advantage of this. No problemo. I have a distribution list on MIM for it now. MIM::US:[BQT]NOTIFY.DIS Mail uses LEGATO:: as a gateway, so it will not work if LEGATO is down. I should clarify that it means mail to destination outside of HECnet uses LEGATO. Mail to recipients inside HECnet requires that those specific machines are online (obviously). Would the CHIMPY::smtp%"foo at bar.com" format work? I use that for some distribution lists on say HILANT.. Sure. Any address works equally well, actually. As long as it's a form of address I can use from MIM. It's just that LEGATO was in my head as a gateway I had used in the past which worked for delivering mail to the internet. Then have both LEGATO and CHIMPY as relays, I doubt we'd be sending out THAT much mail that getting two copies would bother the recipient too badly.. Up to whomever wants to to tell me what address they want me to send to. Of course, I will eventually move to my own SMTP client on MIM (once I've written it). Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol The whole point of this exercise was to allow the individual systems to update (in an automated fashion) their node database when Johnny publishes an update. The automation requires that only one such notice per event be sent (from Johnny's proedure) directly to the HECnet system. That is a system with a DECnet node name/address like SGC::. In this case the only account that has the priv is SGC::SYSTEM. My system(s) will run DELIVER and just deal with this operation behind the scenes. I will not have to step in at any time so I can just forget about it. DELIVER will parse it, and direct it, such that a process will kick off that will execute NetUpdateV2.COM. Initially it will be only SGC:: (SYSTEM). I will add others directly because I will give the address to Johnny, or I will have SGC:: (SYSTEM) forward it to the other systems within my network, or some of both. The RSX and RSTS systems will actually execute IND files. I have not yet figured out how the ULTRIX systems will handle it. Let's get VMS systems to work first - then deal with the others. -Steve -Steve