My function here... ;-)

I *finally* found my function here...

I signed one message "In Awe" - and Charles asked me why. The answer is 
that in the initial flurry of messages to the list, I had experienced a 
"Mach 2 Flyby" - a.k.a. 40% of the info in the messages was *way* over my 
head. :-O

I'm just a simple backwoods sysadmin/programmer - I've never designed or 
even helped design a protocol before -- hell, getting Perl to open sockets 
gives me fits. {I've done it so rarely}. RFC's are not what I'd call light 
reading... The only RFC I've read end-to-end is TCP/CP {TCP via Carrier 
Pigeon... ;-) }

So -- I'm the self-proclaimed "Bikini Village Idiot!" ;-) [1]

Now that I have a few hours to tinker (very few... I had 2 days off last 
month) I'm going to install Bikini on 2 different machines straight from 
the READMEs and fix anything, no matter how simple, that  might need 
improvement. I have one *very* plain LWQ qmail install which will be my 
"barebones testbed."

I have found a couple of small changes to fix - I'll submit diffs tomorrow 
- but I have one big question: In the sample /service/bikini/run file, the 
first 2 lines are:

service=pop3d
. /usr/lib/qmail/run-functions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What *is* that file? It's not on either of my LWQ installs, the docs don't 
mention it, and I don't know if it's crucial to the running of bikini, so I 
haven't yanked it out yet (I will tonite if I have time & report back).

Anywho, I'm about 1/3 thru my O'Reilly PHP book I got last week, so by the 
end of the week, I'll prolly have a Python book on order - I just don't 
think I can get thru much here without one... Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] That said, I'm really not an idiot - I can program in almost 20 
languages {most of 'em dead, /of course/} and troubleshooting is one of the 
few things I still truly enjoy WRT to computers.

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
[email protected]

What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????