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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:37:57 -0000
From:      "George Barnett" <george@alink.co.za>
To:        "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: uucp
Message-ID:  <03de01c2e8ad$5b36cee0$c74608c3@spoem>
References:  <031701c2e88e$cf9fed80$c74608c3@spoem> <b4nir2$2j6l$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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From: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>

> > Now, I can either go and add the user UUCP..
>
> Do so.  Why did you remove it in the first place?

I have no use for anything to do with uucp.  Why should the user remain on
the system if they're not going to be doing anything?

> > or I could try figure out why make is ignoring this:
> >
> > foo# grep UUCP /etc/make.conf
> > NOUUCP=true    # do not build uucp related programs
>
> This says "do not build uucp related programs".  It does not say
> to ignore every traditional usage of the user "uucp" for serial
> locking etc.

Surely if nothing related to uucp is being built then the uucp user should
not be needed?

--george

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> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de
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