Raylene,
I was reviewing your earlier response on logistical issues, but I think
I'm missing the second email message addressing the other items. Do
you still have a copy of it, and if so, could you forward it to
me?
Thanks,
At 05:50 PM 3/1/2005, Raylene Pak wrote:
Philip,
I am going to have to answer your questions in multiple emails.
Here's the first of them.
Raylene
Philip Gust <gust@NouveauSystems.com> wrote:
- 1) Can you recommend a good overview concepts & facilities
document that we can all read to
- bring us up to speed on the system-level aspects of Augment? It
would be great if we can all
- get to a common basic level of understanding. I know that I always
feel a little foolish asking
- basic questions that I could have answered myself by doing a little
reading ahead of time.
- Not sure about this. Let me look into what is available that
might be useful.
- 2) That said, could you briefly explain the concept of an ident name
in Augment and how it is
- used?
- Every Augment user is assigned one or more idents. An ident is
a combination of a short (2-4 character) unique identifier for the
individual and a short identifier for their organization.
Additionally, there is the concept of a role ident when multiple users
might assume a role within the organization - e.g. administrator or help
desk. Idents are also used to support mailing lists and group
memberships. Each statement within an Augment file is tagged with
the ident of the last person to create or modify that statement.
Idents are used to restrict access to Augment files to selected
individuals or individuals who are members of an ident group. They
may also be used to identify the recipients and senders of emails.
The ident system is also used to store general purpose contact
information about Augment users.
- 3) Is this list of tasks something on the order of an afternoon's
work, or several days work to
- accomplish, once Ken clones the BI5 host?
- This will be a several day project.
- 6) On the 8th item, you're saying that the host name is complied in
to Augment as well as
- stored in various configuration files? Is this a logical host
name that is internal to Augment,
- or the actual host name of the virtual TOPS-20 system running
Augment?
- The actual host name - e.g. BI5
- 8) On the 9th item, do you mean that the mail relay host is compiled
in to the SMTP deamon
- code, rather than being read from a configuration file?
- Currently, it is. This was a quick and dirty fix to deal with a
version of SMTP that does not have code to use the DNS to resolve host
addresses. The SMTP code uses host table look up, but that is no
longer feasible in today's internet environment. So, a patch was
added to send all inter-host email to another, co-operating host
(www.bootstrap.org) for forwarding
to their final destination.
- 9) On the 12th item, what has been the practice in Augment with
regard to access privileges
- to source code? Some systems make source code readable by
everyone but modifiable by
- a more limited list, while in others it is only available to a select
list. It a matter of culture,
- so I'm interested in the practice within the NLS/Augment
culture. As an artifact, I'd think
- that we'd want the permissions to reflect that.
- During the time period thatI have been involved with Augment, the
source code has been made readable only to a select list of users.
Philip Gust
Nouveau Systems, Inc.
phone: +1 650 961-7992
fax: +1 520 843-7217
mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com
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