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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:04:34 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        ctm-announce@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: To all the ctm'mers... 
Message-ID:  <199503281704.TAA24899@grunt.grondar.za>

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> > How about assuming that ctm is in the same directory as ctm_rmail?
> > 
> We know where it is, /usr/sbin !

Sure. But you know what folks are like; they move things. I don't like
hard-coded paths to executables anyway. Messy-DOG is famous for this
crap.

> Well, really,  I have thought about this, and I belive the right thing to
> do, is the make a /etc/ctmcap file.
> 
> What do you think of this strawman:

Cool! This makes sense!

> default:\
> 	:lf=/var/log/ctm.log:\		(log file)
> 	:mn=phk:mv=2:\			(mail to and level of verbosity)
> 	:ms=CTM result:\		(mail subject)
> 	:pc=/usr/sbin/ctm:\		(path to ctm)
> 
> 	
> src-cur|Current FreeBSD Source Code:\
> 	:sd=/var/spool/ctm:\		(spool dir for mail parts)
> 	:ad=/archive/ctm/src-cur:\	(archive dir for deltas)
> 	:ed=/usr/src:\			(extraction dir)	
> 	:dm=0750:du=bin:dg=bin:\	(dir mode user group)
> 	:fm=0444:fu=bin:fg=bin:\	(file mode user group)
> 	:co=-v -P:\			(ctm options)
> 	:tc=default:			(use the defaults)
> 	
> 
> Then we make ctm_rmail setuid safe and install it setuid and you can
> just use this for you alias:
> 
> ctm:	"|/usr/sbin/ctm_rmail"
> 
> even if you receive several streams of ctm-deltas.
> 
> Now, who does this ?

<Gulp>. I'll look at it. No promises.

--
Mark Murray
46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
+27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200



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