Pathalias & a local file

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2 total messages Started by Joseph E Poplawski Sun, 09 Oct 1988 17:18

#2853

Author: Joseph E Poplawski
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 1988 17:18

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Is there a way with pathalias to have a map entry for your site, that only 
your site uses.  For example, to let your system know that you speak to system
ALPHA ten times a day, but in the normal map entry that gets distributed to the
net, say you speak to ALPHA once a week?  I heard something mentioned of a file
that can be created called 'u.local' or something like that.  Would that be
the correct way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

-Jo Poplawski

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Re: Pathalias & a local file

#2862

Author: Andrew Patrick
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 14:33

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In article <211@fantasci.UUCP> jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) writes:

>Is there a way with pathalias to have a map entry for your site, that only 
>your site uses.  For example, to let your system know that you speak to system
>ALPHA ten times a day, but in the normal map entry that gets distributed to the
>net, say you speak to ALPHA once a week?  I heard something mentioned of a file
>that can be created called 'u.local' or something like that.  Would that be
>the correct way to do it?

Yes, create the file with the local information you want, and then
make sure that it is the first input to pathalias.  Our script for
calling pathalias from cron once a week includes the following:

...
| P1="local.changes"
| P2="d.*"
| P3="u.[a-z]*"
| PATHS="$P1 $P2 $P3"
| pathalias -i $PATHS | sort > paths.new; mv paths paths.old; mv paths.new paths
| echo "Done."
...
 
and the file 'local.changes' contains information like:

...
| # machines and connections known to have trouble
|
| dead	{mnetor, ihnp4, dciem!utcsri}
|
| # unadvertised links
|
| foo   bar(DIRECT)
...

I hope this helps.

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