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From: winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans)
Subject: Re: UUCP instructions?
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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:50:21 GMT
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In article <2prpnu$bhi@hermes.unt.edu> wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes:
>Just wondering if anyone has a step by step list of instructions for setting
>up UUCP on NetBSD 0.9. I am planning to install a modem into the machine and
>connect at home so I can grab email and news. MAN pages on uucp and uucpd
>are note included in my version of Unix :(

Hmmm... after a little pokeing around, I can see that I aint got it either 
and I installed everything from the 0.9 release.  I can only assume that 
there aint one in it.  Can anyone confirm this?  Do any of the *BSDs have 
one as distributed?


As far as getting one installed, I would ftp uucp-1.04* from prep.ai.mit.edu.
It looks like it would work well and has a ton of DOCs with it.  I would guess
that using the TAYLOR mode would be your best bet with it since it was probably
debugged in that mode.

Some gusses about the policy.h configs...
#define HAVE_BSD_TTY 1
#define HAVE_UNBLOCKED_WRITES 0	(even though it says otherwise)
#define CLOSE_LOGFILES 1	(might help when hacking)

The rest look like a good place to start.

If you get it working, I am sure that the net would appreciate any comments you
have on the configuration and policy.h settings.


I expect that sendmail will be a larger problem then UUCP.  You can find
info about it in:

/usr/share/doc/smm/16.sendmail
/usr/share/doc/smm/07.sendmailop
/home/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/READ_ME
/home/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README

Good luck,
--John
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