From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 4 9:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from atg.aciworldwide.com (h139-142-180-4.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [139.142.180.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8A237B407 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atg.aciworldwide.com (atg.aciworldwide.com [139.142.180.33]) by atg.aciworldwide.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f94GuF8f037236; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:56:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200110041656.f94GuF8f037236@atg.aciworldwide.com> Organization: ACI Worldwide - Advanced Technology Group X-URL: http://www.aciworldwide.com/ X-Notes-Item: Just say no to Notes! To: Bernd Walter Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: Message from Bernd Walter of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:20:33 +0200." <20011004022033.D110@cicely20.cicely.de> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:56:15 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are many other points - some examples I know of: > The /var/spool/uucppublic which is writeable by everyone. > Usually you don't want this. Just like with anonymous FTP, don't make it world writable if you don't want the world writing to it. > Ever received a mail with an envelope like "foo bar"@company.com? > It's legal and sendmail accepts them - but rmail doesn't like the space I use rsmtp to forward mail, so that's not a problem. > uux forwarding to a site with exact 8 letters in size doesn't work. > Yes - tranditional sites are limited to 7 letters but users don't care. But you'll know on a per-site basis if it's going to work or not. If it doesn't, you work around it. Bugs in _other_ UUCP implementations are not grounds for ditching ours. > There is a port and thus packages will be build and you can install > it whenever you need it. jot, lam, colldef, lkbib, xstr, bikeshed. > If you don't need it - which is the by far most common case - you > don't want to see such a critical and unmaintained software installed. How can it be both unneeded and critical? I'll agree it's unmaintained; the fix for that is to find a maintainer. --lyndon Learn from the mistakes of others; you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message