Conference rocks::uk_digital

1434.0. "Does anyone know "tjp" who did Unix/C/sendmail consultancy in January 1996???" by KERNEL::COFFEYJ (La Feline Flooz - a unix cat) Tue May 13 1997 18:42

Can anyone help me!!!!!


After much discussion a customer now agrees that create_db is 
probably not an integral part of sendmail on digital unix 
3.2g as none, bar one,  of his systems or ours have it,
and it's not listed in /usr/.smdb./*.inv

So since he's not over the moon and there's no chance of 
me or engineering modifying the code which he's unhappy with 
to have some  error handling so it doesn't corrupt his 
sendmail stuff then I'm trying to find out the creator of 
this rogue code. 

The comment in the sources he has (another clue it's not from the 
real kits) say something along the lines of the following....

"Given a file in the usual form this will produce an ndbm 
pair of files.  it creates a hashed file overwritting any 
existing ones  of the same name - this does the same job as newaliases."
"tjp digital 15/jan 1996" 

So, the chance of a sip of my pint of cider down the GL goes 
to the person who sucessfully shops the person responsible 
for this code to me so I can get the customer talking to 
someone appropriate....


Some of you must have some idea who T J P, a consultant 
capable of C programming at least who was around a year
and a half ago was?  

Is he/she still here? 

(fat chance eh :-) 




Thanks


Jo. 

    Jo,
    
    The powers of AV came up with DECWET::PAINTER,  but I can't find
    him/her in Elf.  The right sort of nodename for UNIX code though!
    
    Jc
    

    It also picked up:-
    
    amur::porter
    
    and Tony Pitt (@GMT)
    
    Jc
    

Excellent, it was Tony, 
the call is now closed, 
and the customer is modifying his
own custom code to do some error handling :-) 

    This is quite interesting...
    
    A search wth AV notes ( http://www-notes.lkg.dec.com:8000 )
    
    didn't find too many TJPs - Tony normally signs notes with a "T".  But
    his mistake was to include a "SID" article in one of his replies, 
    which did have a "TJP" signature.
    
    Now to remove all those Jc trailers...
    
    Jc
    
    Ooops - I forgot!
    

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