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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:26:52 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: UUCP
Message-ID:  <20001004102652.F7292@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001003143428.A98675@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:34:28PM %2B0300
References:  <20001003094902.A358@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003163553.I1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003171050.M1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003143428.A98675@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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On Tuesday,  3 October 2000 at 14:34:28 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [20001003 10:42]:

First, please note the .sig:

> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
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This is the second private reply you have  sent me.

>> On Tuesday,  3 October 2000 at 10:25:07 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>> * Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [20001003 10:07]:
>>>> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
>>>> If you don't, I may ignore the reply.
>>>> On Tuesday,  3 October 2000 at  9:49:02 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>>> Do you intend to talk uucp protocol to your terminal?  The shell for
>>>> user uucp is uucico, and that's what *it* speaks.  Wait a minute or
>>>> two, and it'll get bored and go away.
>>>
>>> I guess so...if that is what it will require so that I reschedule the
>>> faxes..
>>
>> Basically, 'su uucp' is an error.  It will resolve itself after a
>> couple of minutes, but nothing else will change.
>
> Thanks. I think the Linux guys could be having it differently because one
> of them was suggesting this (and he seemed to be doing that many times
> with success because why else would he suggest it?)  this to me as the
> way to modify the fax queue.I'll try the option ofcreating a second account
> with uucico and see if it sorts me out.

No, you don't want uucico.  If you want to perform shell operations
as uucp, you need a shell.  I suspect you have misunderstood what the
Linux guy was saying.

Greg
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