From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 3 06:56:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14800 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 06:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA14750 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 06:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp38.monmouth.com [205.164.221.70]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA05736; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id JAA04901 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:54:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199710031354.JAA04901@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: UUCP In-Reply-To: <199710030604.XAA04517@dog.farm.org> from Dmitry Kohmanyuk at "Oct 2, 97 11:04:04 pm" To: dk+@ua.net Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:54:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In article you wrote: > > Would it be possible to uncomment the HDB capabilities in UUCP for the > > next release? Even though UUCP died years ago, I'm converting more > > UUCP WHAT?? How else are you supposed to do mail backups with > other ISP, but with UUCP over TCP to your primary line? > The network I set up in university 2 years ago still works this way, > and mail goes in and out even if leased line and/or router died. > > What about hundreds of customers in xUSSR with non-nailed lines (which > are more expensive than dedicated ISDN in the U.S.?) etc. > > As for UUCP in FreeBSD tree, well, there were some problems reported > before, but I beleive they were all fixed. > I still think that FreeBSD should adopt the position of supporting HDB V2 uucp configuration files in the system. (I have to rebuild uucp after all the make worlds with my own patches to do so...) If it's a "lets not do any SysVish stuff" we should be using the 4.3BSD logging and directory structure with the V2 config files 8-) Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.