Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:30:19 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports Message-ID: <20010217173019.A431@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200102170722.f1H7MHm20405@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:22:17PM -0800 References: <200102170722.f1H7MHm20405@earth.backplane.com>
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:22:17PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > Ok, here's my summary. Yah yah, I inject my own opinions. Too bad. > This will be my last posting on the topic. > > > Least Controversial: > > Medium Controversial: > > UUCP (uucp, uucpd) > [snip] > > There are fewer people screaming for UUCP to stay in the base tree > then, say, people screaming for rlogind to stay in the base tree. > Despite Terry's waxing poetic about UUCP's dialup capabilities, > every soul I know (except maybe Terry) who has ever used UUCP in the > past no longer does (and I should know: I wrote AmigaUUCP!). > However, if those people are going to make a big deal about it, > I suppose we can take the intermediate step of having a BUILD_UUCP > make.conf (opt-in) option for the next few years. Just a minor comment-with-a-question. What is UUCP used for - mainly mail? If so, then here's a datapoint - about two years ago I took part in converting an existing UUCP mail transfer config to one using fetchmail. Quite simple - invoke fetchmail -d from the PPP link-up script, kill it in the link-down script in such a way that it sends a QUIT to avoid message duplicates. There were a couple of other issues too, but in the end, it all started working, and it's been working flawlessly for the past two years. When I compared a five-line .fetchmailrc to the UUCP configuration (that I, admittedly, did not quite understand, since I had had no part in setting it up), I was, like.. well, you can imagine :) G'luck, Peter -- The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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