From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 17:57:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3D837B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e940uqK07609; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:26:52 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:26:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: <20001004102652.F7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001003094902.A358@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003163553.I1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003171050.M1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003143428.A98675@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001003143428.A98675@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:34:28PM +0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 14:34:28 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Greg Lehey [20001003 10:42]: First, please note the .sig: > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. This is the second private reply you have sent me. >> On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 10:25:07 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >>> * Greg Lehey [20001003 10:07]: >>>> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >>>> If you don't, I may ignore the reply. >>>> On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 9:49:02 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >>>> Do you intend to talk uucp protocol to your terminal? The shell for >>>> user uucp is uucico, and that's what *it* speaks. Wait a minute or >>>> two, and it'll get bored and go away. >>> >>> I guess so...if that is what it will require so that I reschedule the >>> faxes.. >> >> Basically, 'su uucp' is an error. It will resolve itself after a >> couple of minutes, but nothing else will change. > > Thanks. I think the Linux guys could be having it differently because one > of them was suggesting this (and he seemed to be doing that many times > with success because why else would he suggest it?) this to me as the > way to modify the fax queue.I'll try the option ofcreating a second account > with uucico and see if it sorts me out. No, you don't want uucico. If you want to perform shell operations as uucp, you need a shell. I suspect you have misunderstood what the Linux guy was saying. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message