From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 21 00:51:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19102 for current-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19095 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA15223; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:51:08 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA07454; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:51:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA05208; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:44:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607210744.JAA05208@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cu(1) stopped working? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:44:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: nordquis@visi.com (Brent J. Nordquist) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <01BB768F.78EB2D60@undquirt.visi.com> from "Brent J. Nordquist" at "Jul 20, 96 11:01:56 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brent J. Nordquist wrote: > Suddenly in the latest sup of -current (Jul. 18) cu reports "Device > not configured" and that it's locked, but there are no lock files (I > can't believe it's really in use). Snooping around in /etc, I found > that /etc/uucp was changed by the make world. Has cu always been > part of Taylor UUCP (as noted in the man page), or have we suddenly > switched cu's? Or, has something else changed very recently having > to do with cu? cu has been the Taylor version for very long now, and it always (erroneously) installs the template files in /etc/uucp from a `make world'. They all end up in .sample however, und thus should not conflict with the actual configuration files. The entire UUCP suite never broke for me by this (neither cu nor uucico), and i'm relying exclusively on UUCP for all my mail and news. > And yes, I have been meaning to switch to tip anyway... looks like > now is the time. Just wanted everyone to have my one data point on > this. Do you have any reason to switch to tip? I find the Taylor config files much more intelligible than all the /etc/remote etc. stuff. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)