From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 1 02:26:43 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA17000 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:26:43 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA16973 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:25:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA17633; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:23:01 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA03937; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:22:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA05572; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 07:41:53 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508010541.HAA05572@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 07:41:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@freebsd.org, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, tom@uniserve.com In-Reply-To: from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka" at Jul 30, 95 09:56:21 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1175 Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka wrote: > > >There is no binary /usr/libexec/uucp, that is a subdir (sick). uucico should > >not normally be called at command line, neither should uuxqt. > > Really? It is many cases when uucico and uuxqt called from command line. > I run uucp sites for several years and trust me, it is common case. > On my home computer I often start uucico > manually when I want to deliver mail as soon as possible and often There's normally a front-end called Uutry that hides the ugly handling of uucico from the user. Unfortunately, Taylor misses it (and mine is stolen from Data General. :) It starts uucico, and tail -f's the log file, so you can watch what's happening. > start uuxqt when don't want to wait until all files becomes received. ``run-uuxqt 2'' (or 3) is a better solution (IMHO). > (Does sendmail should no normally be called at command line too? Or what?) Sendmail is both. But even for its use as ``sendmail -bd'', it would clearly belong to /usr/sbin. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)