From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 8:41:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7398237B404 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E62443E7B for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003154131.LPAQ9928.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:41:31 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g933rDMX028643; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g933r6FA028640; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Mikko =?iso-8859-1?q?Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= Cc: Socketd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/spool/uucppublic References: <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Oct 2002 20:53:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikko Työläjärvi writes: > It is part of the system and used by UUCP. As you do not seem to know > what uucp is, I'd say it is highly likely that you are not running uucp. > > Just delete the directory. And keep deleting it after every new But he shouldn't get the idea that he doesn't need the "uucp" user and group, like I did (after reading that you shouldn't have users you don't need). OS upgrade goes awry. There IS a make.conf thing "NOUUCP=true", but I haven't tried it yet, so can't say how well it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message