From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 16:23:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24128 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:23:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24089 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id SAA18532; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:23:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA00849; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:47:31 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:47:31 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Doug White cc: wott@mail.iserv.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWBIE questions - cu & named In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry -- I got in on this late. cu uses the uucp configuration files. If they are not set up with at least "direct" in dial or Dialer, you probably can't get there. I never done anything more to get cu to work. -- Jay On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: ->On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 wott@mail.iserv.net wrote: -> ->> ->> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD (2.1.6) and am having a couple of ->> problems. ->> When trying to use cu, I receive an error that the specified port is ->> not found (cuaa2). I can use ecu, and dial right out, but the ->> display gets set so the text is black on black. Any suggestions? I'm ->> trying to attach to an older system and have to use some form of cu. -> ->Make sure you are in the dialer group (see /etc/group). -> ->> Also, I need the terminal type set to an att605 so when/if I get ->> connected I will be able to read things, will this be a problem? -> ->You need to tell the remote side you're an att605. -> ->> The named problem is minor, when starting up, I get an error that the ->> named.boot file is not found, but by loading it from a command prompt, ->> it loads just fine... possibly a problem in where it is located in the ->> sysconfig ? -> ->Perhaps, make sure the path to named.boot is given explicitly. -> ->Doug White | University of Oregon ->Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant ->http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major ->