From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 24 08:15:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20044 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:15:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tok.qiv.com (kkkf5RrUv+p6TBvu6/MNkfEKxzdesA5q@tok.qiv.com [204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20025 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA16713; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:15:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00378; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:08:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:08:33 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: uucp failing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 | >+-------------------------------------------------------+ >