From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 01:41:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA08317 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA08307 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:41:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA13363; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:43:49 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:43:48 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Chang To: "Jay D. Nelson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp assistance needed 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 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