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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:43:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp assistance needed
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.95.970306014259.21168E-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970305182736.438D-100000@acp.qiv.com>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> ->	I am in need of help from someone more experienced with uucp.  
> ->
> ->	I want the uucp machine to call up via uucico (which it currently
> ->can do, I just don't have a login & password to get me uucp access) to our
> 
> You must have a uucp login account on the machine earth that executes
> uucico as a login shell. The uucp system on the machine earth must also be
> configured to know who you are.

	How does one configure the uucp system on the machine earth?

> ->machine earth. 
> ->
> ->	It then needs to transfer news files to earth either directly to
> ->/usr/local/dnews/uucpin or to another directory where they can later be
> ->copied to /usr/local/dnews/uucpin. 
> ->
> ->	It also needs to retrieve any news waiting to go out via uucp from
> ->/usr/local/dnews/uucpout. 
> ->
> ->	That's pretty much it...like I said, the uucp machine is directly
> ->connected via null modem cable, so it gets to the login prompt, I just
> ->don't know how to set up earth.  Config files are in /etc/uucp, I briefly
> ->played with them, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. 
> ->
> ->	Thanks a bunch!

Richard





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