4.4BSD/usr/src/contrib/bind-4.9/conf/Info.nsmaint

Date: 	Mon, 26 Apr 1993 18:06:39 -0400
From: Andy Poling <andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: Long Running Dream (was Re: send me your to-do lists)
To: Mohamed Ellozy <ellozy@farber.harvard.edu>
Cc: bind@uunet.UU.NET, bind-4.9@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1993, Andy Poling writes

>I'm afraid I removed it from my anonymous FTP archive a few months ago. 
>It seemed out-of-date enough that it just might be dangerous if someone
>actually expected it to still be useful.  :-)
>
>I didn't even keep the source around - it just didn't really seem useful
>anymore.

I have it!  I took Dennis Ferguson's nsmaint code and added Andy's
check_boot code and bundled it up into a inhanced nsmaint.  Together
with Theodore Ts'o ninit, these programs pretty much run the show
here.  Our staff can reload the server by typing "nsmaint hup" which
does a check on the boot files before reloading.  Some of my recoding
is dreadful :), but it works very well.  I'm sure someone out there
could grab it, cover my sins, and make it better.  I stuck in the ftp
area on indiana.edu as nsmaint.tar.Z which includes the ninit stuff too.

Regards,
Steve Mosier @ Indiana University