09-27-2013
I did ask him for more assistance, actually. Three times, to be exact. This first time he provided me with a link that brought me to a page that helped me understand automating slightly but didn't help me understand how to automate this assignment. After I realized that would not be enough for me to work with I contacted him again. This time he told me he already sent me a link and that if that wasn't enough for me then to research it on my own. I had been doing that previously and had by that point already created this thread as well. I then emailed him again stating that this was not enough help because I had called my student adviser for help, researched the topic, created this thread, and tried getting help from 4 of my peers, only one of whom would reply to me. That student was just as stuck as me. So here I am, having filed for an incomplete because I couldn't complete the assignment due to lack of understanding. I'm still trying to understand this automating stuff. I don't know how to set it up to check if the directories and files already exist or how to make error messages appear.
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To make it more clear, my instructor told me to file for an incomplete if I couldn't finish my assignment by the due date and that he had done all he could for me and to work with what I have, which is nothing but a thread where no one understands my assignment any better then I do and an assignment that I can't complete. Is there any one who can try to break down automating each part of my script bit by bit? I can't seem to grasp this topic at all and I need some simple descriptions of how this is all supposed to work.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
qmail-users
qmail-users(5) File Formats Manual qmail-users(5)
NAME
qmail-users - assign mail addresses to users
OVERVIEW
The file /var/lib/qmail/users/assign assigns addresses to users. For example,
=joe.shmoe:joe:503:78:/home/joe:::
says that mail for joe.shmoe should be delivered to user joe, with uid 503 and gid 78, as specified by /home/joe/.qmail.
Assignments fed to qmail-newu will be used by qmail-lspawn to control qmail-local's deliveries. See qmail-newu(8). A change to
/var/lib/qmail/users/assign will have no effect until qmail-newu is run.
STRUCTURE
/var/lib/qmail/users/assign is a series of assignments, one per line. It ends with a line containing a single dot. Lines must not contain
NUL.
SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS
A simple assignment is a line of the form
=local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:
Here local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages to local will
be controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext.
If there are several assignments for the same local address, qmail-lspawn will use the first one.
local is interpreted without regard to case.
WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS
A wildcard assignment is a line of the form
+loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:
This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including loc itself. It means the same as
=locext:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:preext:
for every string ext.
A more specific wildcard assignment overrides a less specific assignment, and a simple assignment overrides any wildcard assignment. For
example:
+:alias:7790:2108:/var/lib/qmail/alias:-::
+joe-:joe:507:100:/home/joe:-::
=joe:joe:507:100:/home/joe:::
The address joe is handled by the third line; the address joe-direct is handled by the second line; the address bill is handled by the
first line.
SEE ALSO
qmail-pw2u(8), qmail-newu(8), qmail-lspawn(8)
qmail-users(5)