Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:57:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp assistance needed Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970305175448.438A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.95.970305141037.21168C-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Richard Chang wrote: -> I am in need of help from someone more experienced with uucp. -> -> I want the uucp machine to call up via uucico (which it currently ->can do, I just don't have a login & password to get me uucp access) to our ->machine earth. Without a uucp login and password, there's nothing you can do. The machine earth must have a user account that executes uucico as the login shell. That's the easy part. After that you get the joy of setting up CNEWS. -- Jay -> -> It then needs to transfer news files to earth either directly to ->/usr/local/dnews/uucpin or to another directory where they can later be ->copied to /usr/local/dnews/uucpin. -> -> It also needs to retrieve any news waiting to go out via uucp from ->/usr/local/dnews/uucpout. -> -> That's pretty much it...like I said, the uucp machine is directly ->connected via null modem cable, so it gets to the login prompt, I just ->don't know how to set up earth. Config files are in /etc/uucp, I briefly ->played with them, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. -> -> Thanks a bunch! -> ->Richard -> ->
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