---------------------------------------------------------------------------- flash@sun.com Founded December 1988 SunFlash - The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Weekly Digest - June 6th to June 12th 1994 - Part 2 of 2 John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor ____________________________________________________________________________ 66.d4 The Weekly Digest is in two articles to separate the 'standard' information from actual digest and to keep the article size small enough to please all mailer programs! This "weekly digest" is being posted to all Daily SunFlash subscribers so that they can experience the weekly distribution option and because I had some problems getting some of the daily articles to people last week. Daily subscribers can change Weekly by sending email to flash@sun.com -johnj Contents SunFlash ftp archives Popular SunFlash Articles from March, April and May Obtaining Back Issues By Email If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time SunFlash Subscription Options SunFlash Email addresses ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash ftp archives ------------------------------ The SunFlash ftp archives are still being kept up-to-date. In fact, I now keep each of the articles from the current year in subdirectories as separate files. This makes it easy to ftp single articles. ftp server Directory name sunsite.unc.edu pub/sun-info/sunflash draco.nova.edu pub/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash ftp.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash Subject: Popular SunFlash Articles from March, April and May ------------------------------------------------------------ The most frequently requested articles from the volumes for March, April and May 1994 are listed below. Top Articles request from Vol 65 (May 1994) 65.39 New SPARCstation 5 Configuration 65.58 Freeware for a Multimedia Internet 65.33 GNU tools "packaged" for Solaris 2.3 65.51 OPEN LOOK GUI FAQ 01 of 04: General 65.54 OPEN LOOK GUI FAQ 04 of 04: Programs 65.52 OPEN LOOK GUI FAQ 02 of 04: DeskSet 65.53 OPEN LOOK GUI FAQ 03 of 04: XView 65.57 BRIEF/vi Compatible GUI Text Editor 65.18 Public Release of X11R6 65.43 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B Source 65.50 Updated Internet Services List (5/16/94) 65.34 MKS Internet Anywhere Now Shipping Top Articles request from Vol 64 (April 1994) 64.19 SunSoft Debuts Solaris 2.4 64.30 Solaris and MS-Windows, DOS, MAC Apps 64.37 Internet Services List (4/1/94) 64.63 Mosaic Server Product Announcement 64.36 The Internet Mall [01 Apr, 94] 64.02 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B 64.21 Roadmap For Solaris Distributed Objects 64.88 INTERNET SHOPPING NETWORK 64.43 Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog 64.24 SunSoft: NetWorker for Solaris 64.86 The Internet Mall [15 Apr, 94] 64.20 Solaris: UNIX Platform Of Choice 64.85 Updated Internet Services List (4/15/94) Top Articles request from Vol 63 (March 1994) 63.60 SMCC Introduces SPARCstation Voyager 63.61 Solaris to Run Macintosh Applications 63.45 Internet Services List (Mar-01-94) 63.71 Sun Security Bulletin: #00126, 3/21/94 63.80 The Internet Mall: [22 Mar, 94] 63.64 STB Takes microSPARC-II to 85 and 100MHz 63.06 New Upgrades To SPARCstation 10 63.72 Solaris x86 Hardware Compatibility Guide 63.81 Internet Multicasting Service 63.44 Solaris 2 SW list 63.79 CERT ADVISORY - utmp vulnerability 63.46 SURAnet Guide to Internet Resources Each month a number of different articles are requested - not just for the current or previous volume. A quick count throught my log files produced this summary: Month #of different articles requested January 228 February 223 March 372 April 410 May 477 June 310 (12 days into the month!) This suggests that my back issues remain valuable and I should make it easier to access them (e.g. with and email search capability). Subject: Obtaining Back Issues Of SunFlash By Email --------------------------------------------------- You may obtain back issues by sending the volume and part number to flashadm@sun.com. Place the vol.part numbers in the Subject line and separate with a space. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - separate vol.part numbers with spaces - leave the body of message empty - My autoresponse program will extract your address from the From: line in your mail header. If your mail message has an incorrect From: line, articles will not get to you. If you send for articles and they don't get to you, please send email to flash@sun.com Subject: If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time --------------------------------------------------------- I get a number of requests that come from sites that do not have their mail system set up properly. Some requests have their return path or the From: lines mangled as they travel through the net. If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit your request and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message. For example: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: SunFlash Subscription Options ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The new 'Abstracts' or digest style articles, such as this one, make it possible for me to increase the number of articles that I make available without drowning everyone in email. However, for those people who want all the articles and are prepared to deal with 100+ articles a month, I have created a new distribution option: Daily (or direct) - about 1 message per day, including Abstracts type articles - monthly digest Weekly (or indirect) - 1 message per week Monthly - 1 message per month Full (or total or verbose) - all articles. 100+ per month. Often posted in groups of 4 to 10 at a time. - suitable of redistribution via local newsgroups or for local archiving Almost everyone is in the Daily distribution. If you want to have your distribution type changed, please send mail to flash@sun.com. Distribution Aliases -------------------- Many organizations have aliases in place for the direct distribution of sunflash within those organizations. Please check if such an alias already exists at your site before sending a request to flash@sun.com. If your site does not have a sunflash redistribution alias in place and there are several people at your site who would be interested in subscribing to SunFlash, please create your own redistribution alias and have that aliases added to the appropriate list. Add your own email address to your redistribution alias. Local redistribution aliases allow local administrators to add/delete/change their own sunflash subcribers with ease. Please do not add subscribers from other organizations to your local redistribution alias. Ask flash@sun.com to add them instead. (It's a lot harder to track down problems if users from one organizations are 'hidden' in the sunflash alias of another.) As there are several SunFlash Distributions options, please consider creating several aliases: #default distribution sunflash: sunflash-daily #daily: about 1 per day, some will be digests sunflash-daily: #weekly: about 1 per week, all will be digests sunflash-weekly: #monthly: about 1 per month, all will be digests sunflash-monthly: #full: about 100 per month - all the articles sunflash-full: Please create 'owner' aliases to redirect sendmail errors to a local guru: # Who gets sunflash error messages that are due to local problems ? # Please include a fully qualified address (i.e. with domainname too) owner-sunflash: guru@yoursite.yourdomain owner-sunflash-daily: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-weekly: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-monthly: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-full: owner-sunflash Rather then editing '/etc/aliases', you can use an include file with one email address per line: #sunflash alias files: daily, weekly, monthly and full sunflash: sunflash-daily sunflash-daily: :include:/home/flash/daily.list sunflash-weekly: :include:/home/flash/weekly.list sunflash-monthly: :include:/home/flash/monthly.list sunflash-full: :include:/home/flash/full.list This use of sendmail 'include' files makes it easy for you to add/delete/change entries without (a) being root, and (b) you don't have to edit /etc/aliases and issue the newaliases command (or update the NIS db). 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