From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 1 15:42: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pcslink.com (pcslink.com [206.43.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D822F15403 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@pcslink.com) Received: (from ryan@localhost) by pcslink.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA23197; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:41:42 -0700 (MST) From: Ryan Mooney Message-Id: <199903012341.QAA23197@pcslink.com> Subject: Re: usernames longer than 8 characters In-Reply-To: <36DB23D7.A802ED9A@tinker.com> from Carol Deihl at "Mar 1, 99 05:33:43 pm" To: carol@tinker.com (Carol Deihl) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:41:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: andrew@kohtz.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yeah the programming is MUCH different, but from a users perspective it just looks like a different command line option. That was essentially my point. I doubt Andrew or most users want to muck with the code unless they have to (some of us are masochists, but... :) The new patches I have are also HASH only, mostly because the dbm code (while supposedly in gdb) core dumped when I tried to use it... In short I was to lazy to DL the gdb source & figure out why. > I'm not familiar with the version on Solaris, but there *is* a > difference > in the various dbm things on FBSD. I forget some of the details, > but the original popper patches at westnet used the "old" style, > which even have different subroutine names. The "new" style supports > several kinds of database formats, hash being one of them. I think > the FBSD port of sendmail out-of-the-box has only support for > the "new" style, so that's why I changed specifically to the "hash" > in my version of the popper patches. The sendmail makemap program > didn't seem to understand "-dbm" as an option - although this was > based on stuff I did about 3 years ago, and things might have > changed since then :-) > > Ditto on Ryan's other comments, tho. > > Carol > -- > Carol Deihl - carol@tinker.com > Shrier and Deihl - Unix Network Admin and Internet Software Development > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=-< Ryan Mooney Phone (602)265-9188 PCSLink ryan@pcslink.com Internet Services NT is an excellent choice for managers who need to show that they used up their fiscal year budget for hardware/software expenditures. <-=-=-=-=-=-=-><-=-=-=-=-=-><-=-=-=-=-=-><-=-=-=-=-=-><-=-=-=-=-=-=-> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message