Dear Managers,
I received one answer to my problem with Qpopper and groups from
Dr Thomas Blinn who thought that it sounded like a bug in the Qpopper
software. So I contacted Qualcomm (the distributors) who suggested that I
upgrade to the latest version.
I haven't tried this yet, but will let you know if it works :-)
Regards
Sheryl Bruggy
Systems/Network Administrator - Unix
._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
> Hello Managers,
>
> I have recently upgraded our Qpopper version and have enabled Group
> Bulletins for the first time. We have used the bulletin board system
> for some time and it is a great help in reducing the number of emails
> being sent out at one time, as we have a large number of accounts. We
> also have our staff and students distributed over a number of campuses
> and I thought it would be nice to have bulletins set up for each campus
> as well as the central system.
>
> However, the group bulletins are not working. The system uses the
> /etc/group file to check whether a user receives a copy of a bulletin.
> Those groups with only a few entries work fine, but most of our groups
> have several thousand entries (split into multiple lines with the same
> gid). I have noticed that on the Tru64 managers list there has been some
> discussion in the past about the limits to the number of users in a group
> being set by the sys/limits.h file and the getgrent(3) and associated
> functions which are used by this program. It appears that the getgrid
> function only returns the FIRST group in the database with that gid.
> So, I am assuming that if your name is not in the first line in
> /etc/group, you will not get the bulletin.
>
> Has anyone else come across this problem before and if so, do you have an
> answer?
>
>
> Regards
> Sheryl Bruggy
> Systems/Network Administrator - Unix
Received on Tue Oct 23 2001 - 00:45:53 NZDT