Here is the submitted request,
>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed a new OSF system and got the following mail:
>
> # mail
> >From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Jul 10 09:33:57 1995
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:33:56 +0200
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
> Message-Id: <9507100733.AA00355_at_<myhostname>>
> To: root
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 zko.dec.com (smtp)... Deferred: Connection refused by zko.dec.com
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Received: by <myhostname>; id AA03585; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 22:05:17 +0200
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 22:05:17 +0200
> From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
> Message-Id: <9507062005.AA03585_at_<myhostname>>
> Subject: Installed: BASE 3.0-16 on OSF1 <myhostname> V3.2 17 alpha
> Apparently-To: ladebuginstall_at_zko.dec.com
> ?
>
> Is this the correct behaviour of OSF ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ***
> Christophe DIARRA
> Institut de Physique Nucleaire
> Orsay - Bat 100 - S2I
> 91406 Orsay - FRANCE
> E-mail: diarra_at_ipnsun5.in2p3.fr
> ***
>
I have a lot of responses and I can't include all of them here.
Thanks to peoples who responded : Knut Helleboe, Marco Luchini, Massimo Ianigro,
Marc Cozzi, Thomas P. Blin, Alan, Carlos Touzard.
Bellow is the two messages which best describe the origin of the problem:
Message1:
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>From tpb_at_zk3.dec.com Mon Jul 10 15:42:12 1995
To: diarra_at_ipnsun5.in2p3.fr (Christophe Diarra)
Subject: Re: what is zko.dec.com ?
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<<< Truncated by me >>>
Christophe,
It sounds like your decladebug kit wanted to send mail to the product group
telling them you had installed the product. I believe this is an error in
the kit and I'll try to follow up with the product group to assure that in
the future it doesn't attempt to do this. It certainly should not have been
in the kit. In fact, I think we've seen this happen in the past with some
of our layered products; groups inadvertently leave in the product code that
should only have been present in an internal test version, and it winds up
on a customer system (such as your own). In general, no harm is done; there
is no damage to your system, but it looks foolish for us. I apologize on
behalf of Digital for this error on our part.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 881-0646
Internet: tpb_at_zk3.dec.com Digital's Easynet: alpha::tpb
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Message2:
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>From alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com Mon Jul 10 17:10:01 1995
To: diarra_at_ipnsun5.in2p3.fr
Subject: Re: what is zko.dec.com ?
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Some Digital engineering groups are in the habit of
putting a command in their installation procedure
to send them mail when somebody installs their field
test or an internal version of their software. The
official policy is that these commands are supposed
to be removed for customer releases. Zko.dec.com is
the domain address of our Spitbrook Road facility in
Nashua, New Hampshire. Looks like somebody forgot to
fix their installation procedure.
Received on Mon Jul 10 1995 - 19:19:21 NZST