From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 3 16:13:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19236 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (dgy@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19231 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02873; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:12:10 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199710032312.QAA02873@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: UUCP In-Reply-To: <199710031803.TAA01259@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Oct 3, 97 07:03:22 pm" To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:12:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: pechter@lakewood.com, dk+@ua.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG 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 the words of the world-renowned author, Wilko Bulte: > As Bill Pechter wrote... > > > > 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...) > > No thanks. HDB config files are a pain IMHO. You can quite easily support V2, HDB and Taylor *config* files at the same time. My /etc/uucp contains HBB, V2, Taylor and shared subdirs. Each contains the files appropriate for that particular flavor of UUCP. (shared contains things like dialcodes). They are all symlinked, as needed, up into /etc/uucp. I think the issue of *log* file format was the concern (of a previous poster)... --don