From: SMTP%"merat@UNI2A.UNIGE.CH" 13-AUG-1993 08:22:03.08 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Remarks about Alpha (EDT, PMDF) Message-Id: <9308130919.AA19585@uu7.psi.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 07:45:52 GMT Reply-To: Roger Merat Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was usenet@NEWS.UNIGE.CH From: Roger Merat Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland Subject: Remarks about Alpha (EDT, PMDF) To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS Two remarks about ANUNEWS 6.1b7 modified by Yehavi Bourvine for the Alpha : - the compiler qualifier /TIE is necessary for calling EDT : $ diff newsbuild.com ************ File W3:[UNISRC.NEWS61B7.NEWS_SRC]NEWSBUILD.COM;10 302 $ cc :== "cc''defsw'/NOMEMBER_ALIGN/STANDARD=VAXC''CC_AXP_SW'/TIE" 303 $ ELSE ****** File W3:[UNISRC.NEWS61B7.NEWS_SRC]NEWSBUILD.COM;9 302 $ cc :== "cc''defsw'/NOMEMBER_ALIGN/STANDARD=VAXC''CC_AXP_SW'" 303 $ ELSE ************ Number of difference sections found: 1 Number of difference records found: 1 - ANUNEWS must be installed with privileges in order to work with PMDF :-( ------------------------- From: Portia Shao Subject: RE: What privilege is required with ANU-NEWS on AXP VMS ? >PMDF 4.2-13 and ANU-NEWS 6.1b7 are both installed on an OpenVMS AXP 1.5 >system. > >PMDF works fine. >ANU-NEWS works fine, except when calling mail (REPLY, FORWARD, etc...) >from an unprivileged account with an RFC822 (=PMDF) destination address : >no problem with local or DECnet addresses, no problem either if the account >has the SETPRV privilege. But when calling a PMDF address, the process >gets an access violation. > >Installing MAIL.EXE and MAIL_SERVER with privileges does not help. > >Do you have any idea ? you could try to install ANU-NEWS's .exe file with privileges. On AXP we do not yet have the protected shareable image PMDF_PRIV_DISP like on the VAX, and that is possibly the reason why you need privileges. ------------------------- When ANUNEWS is installed with SYSPRV, PMDF is called but the messages are not processed immediately. Roger Merat merat@uni2a.unige.ch University of Geneva merat@cgeuge51.bitnet Switzerland c=ch/admd=arcom/prmd=switch/o=unige/ou=uni2a/s=merat