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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:08:33 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: uucp failing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980124100251.331B-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980124154728.5583A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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You need a line in /etc/uucp/sys:

commands /bin/rmail /bin/uucp /usr/lib/newsbin/input/rnews

There should be a line like this for each system with which you
communicate. If a command is not listed, the remote system is not
allowed to execute it.

-- Jay

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

>
>Hiyall,
>
>I'm getting an error that uucp and ramptops rmail and rnews requests are
>failing because they do not have permission to run rnews and rmail. How do
>you resolve this?
>
>Regards,
>
>d.
>
>+-------------------------------------------------------+
>| Dean Hollister,           | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au |  
>| Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au        |
>+-------------------------------------------------------+
>





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