[HECnet] Node data update

[Steve Davidson]

Thank you!

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 19:24
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Node data update

On 2013-11-18 01:16, Johnny Billquist 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

Now moved to US:[DECNET]NOTIFY.DIS, just in case someone 
curious wants to look at it. And the execution of things are 
done from US:[DECNET]MAKEFILE.

Any further questions can be directed directly to me, and 
I'll refrain from spamming this list anymore. :-)

	Johnny

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).

        Johnny

Also, sometimes database updates might actually not cause any real 
change to the number to name mapping, just as a small warning.

Also, at this time, any additions or removals from that 
distribution 
are handled be me manually. So let me know if you want to be in or 
out of that list.

        Johnny


-Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Sun 11/17/2013 13:51
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Node data update

On 2013-11-17 19:21, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-11-17 17:55, Steve Davidson wrote:

Johnny,

How much effort would be involved for your procedures to send 
email to a distribution list announcing a change to the network 
database?   I could hook that at my end to the running of 
NetUpdateV2.COM which already makes use of the file 
NODENAMES.DAT, 
that the current procedure produces.   The subject would 
have to be 
unique so that the parser could deal with it.   A mail 
message that 
looked something like this:


To: @netupdate.dis
Subject: NETUPDATE


Content would be ignored.   To subscribe all anyone 
would have to do
would be to submit a HECnet email address to you.   I 
will volunteer
one
right now to test with - SGC::SYSTEM.

Hmm.. Eventually that would be easy, but the one snag 
right now is that
I still do not have a resolver library for RSX finished. 
Once I've done
this, I can do any such automation quite easily.

It might be that I could set it up using a DECnet-SMTP 
gateway right
now. I just need to check this out a little. Let me come 
back to you in
a day or so. Right now I'm trying to understand how 
network booting
PDP-11s work...

          Johnny

Aw, heck. I get distracted easily...

So, to make things clear - you'd like to get a mail with 
a specific
subject line? I figured out how to do that. The sender 
will be me, and
the to-line would be you... I can set that up now, if you 
want to test
it.

      Johnny



Regards,

-Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny 
Billquist
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 14:22
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Node data update

On 2013-11-15 15:49, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Hey Johnny,

Update the extended data for MOYA please.   She is a 
MicroVAX II
(KA630) with 13M RAM in a BA123.

Updated the CPU, thanks. Care to tell what OS?

        Johnny












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