VMSMAILD(8) System Manager's Manual VMSMAILD(8)NAME
vmsmaild - mail daemon for DECnet
SYNOPSIS
vmsmaild [options]
Options:
[-vVhfU] [-l logtype]
DESCRIPTION
vmsmaild is a daemon that forwards incoming VMSmail (or mail11) message to Unix users. It should be started at system boot time (after
DECnet has been started) and must be run as root. It is recommended that you run vmsmaild from dnetd(8)
The options below affect the behaviour of vmsmaild. If you are using dnetd then these options should be specified in the dnetd.conf(5)
file.
OPTIONS -l Set logging options. The following are available:
-lm Log to /dev/mono. (only useful if you have my mono monitor driver or mdacon and a second monitor)
-le Log to stderr. Use this for debugging or testing combined with -d.
-ls Log to syslog(3). This is the default if no options are given.
-v Verbose. The more of these there are the more verbose vmsmaild will be. Don't use more than one for normal operation because it
will seriously impair performance.
-h -? Displays help for using the command.
-V Show the version of vmsmaild.
-f Accepts mail send with the MAIL/FOREIGN command. Setting this option complicates the decoding of all mail message quite substan-
tially because the remote end thinks it is talking to a VMS machine that understands RMS file formats. Only use this option if you
really need it.
-U Don't check that the reply user exists when starting up. If you only want to use linux as a recipient of mail from VMS systems and
don't want to create a vmsmail user then set this option. See the Documentation/mail.README file for more information on setting up
a mail gateway.
SEE ALSO decnet.proxy(5), dnetd(8), dnetd.conf(5)DECnet utilities Decembet 26 2000 VMSMAILD(8)
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DNPING(1) General Commands Manual DNPING(1)NAME
dnping - Loopbacks diagnostic packets through a remote node
SYNOPSIS
dnping nodename [user pass] count
or
dnping nodename [options] nodename
Options:
[qsv] [-c number] [-i interval] [-p password] [-s size] [-u username] [-w timeout]
DESCRIPTION
This utility sends to remote DECnet node nodename the number of packets specified by count to test the link between the two systems.
Optionally a username and password may be specified for the connection as well as several other options. NOTE that if you dnping another
Linux box it must have dnetd running.
NOTE also that dnping is not really like an IP "ping" in that it needs a registered object at the other end to connect to. So, just because
you cannot ping a machine does not, necessarily, mean that machine is not available, just that the MIRROR object is not available. There is
not (to my knowledge) a low-level equivalent in DECnet of the ICMP ping message.
OPTIONS -c number
Number of packets to send (default 10)
-d Debug mode (default off)
-i interval
interval between packets in microseconds (default 0)
-p password
Access control password. If this is "-" then you will be prompted.
-q Quiet mode (default off)
-s size
size of frame to send in bytes (40 data + 68 hdr)
-t timestamps mode (default off)
-u username
access control username
-w timeout
Specifies a timeout (in seconds). If not response is received after this time then dnping will abort. The default is to wait for-
ever.
-v verbose mode (default off)
EXAMPLES
Pings 10 packets through remote node "mv3100"
# dnping mv3100 10
Make it look a bit like IP ping:
# dnping -vti 1000000 marsha
SEE ALSO dntype(1), dndir(1), dndel(1), dntask(1), sethost(1), dnetd(8)DECnet utilities January 25 2000 DNPING(1)