From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 27 10:28:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA01428 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:28:10 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA01422 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:28:08 -0800 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA24497 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:26:41 -0800 Message-Id: <199502271826.KAA24497@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA195219517; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 13:25:17 -0500 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: Patch for gnu/libexec/uucp To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 13:25:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199502270134.UAA00560@ponds.UUCP> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Feb 26, 95 08:34:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2105 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > There was a heavy discussion where we decided (for several reasons, > > > some as Frank has written) that it's best to configure things > > > in using the Taylor ways. > > > > > > I reluctantly agreed, and that's how it's been since then. > > > > > > I therefor suggest that this has already been discussed and decided, > > > and I (as yet) don't see anything different now vs. then, and thus, > > > we can stick with our previous decision. > > > > > > - Dave Rivers - > > > > > > > Dave -- I argued against this in 1.1 for the simple reason that most > > commercial admin manuals cover HDB or V2 uucp and no one does Taylor. > > (Has O'Reilly updated the UUCP book to cover Taylor ? ) > > > > Bill > > Sorry to bring this up again (I've been away from the list for about > 3 weeks - I'm currently 1700 message behind (again :-( ) ). > > Anyway, I held the same opinion - that the commercial texts documented > HDB really well, so why not go with that. > > I _believe_ the counter argument was that Taylor config files allow > for a finer granularity on some settings, and thus; better control. Also, > people pointed out that the taylor config was quite well documented in > the texinfo files that come with Taylor uucp (if I'm recalling all of this > correctly.) > > If anyone cares to re-examine this, I'd be in favor of an HDB approach. > > If a BSD-bigot from way back wants to consider it, we could probably > adopt the L.sys files as well. :-) The way my config goes is: Taylor is supported HDB is supported -- Systems file V2 UUCP - L.sys is supported The code (which I can't find here) seems to look for Taylor first, than HDB and then V2. (Which means -- after I make world -- all I have to do to restore my normal BNU-HDB configs is to remove the sample files that make puts in. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2943 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil