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Date:      02 Oct 2002 20:53:06 -0700
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Mikko =?iso-8859-1?q?Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
Cc:        Socketd <db@traceroute.dk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/spool/uucppublic
Message-ID:  <usptustbz1.tus@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home>
References:  <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home>

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Mikko Työläjärvi <mbsd@pacbell.net> 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.

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