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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!news.Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!abqhh!encap!mav From: mav@encap.hanse.de (Jan-Oliver Neumann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UUCP woes with 386BSD Message-ID: <4F5PPB1w165w@encap.hanse.de> Date: 18 Aug 92 20:32:02 GMT References: <1992Aug15.170940.13095@unixland.natick.ma.us> Lines: 43 bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes: > mink@coyote.datalog.com (Clint Ruoho) writes: > > >I've been unsuccessful in getting UUCP to work under 386bsd. Has anybody > >else out there had any success in this? Could somebody send me some sample > >scripts that are better than the default ones? > > I tried it this morning and got it working fine. What exactly was your > problem? I got Taylor-UUCP working, too. But there are a problems. The first thing I had to do was to copy the UUCP-executables from /usr/libexec/uucp to /usr/bin for example. /usr/libexec/uucp isn't in the search part, so the uucico-daemon wasn't started correctly. Second there are some permission problems. I solved them but I didn't care for system security. (Well, I just wanted this UUCP work). You have to change the ownership of /var/spool/uucp/* to "uucp". Also you must allow UUCP to access /var/spool/lock. And of course /var/spool/log/aculog. I think there are more of these permission problems, but they are quite easy to solve. I can't understand why there are so many permission problems. Why wasn't the binary tested before released to the people? > > However I have not had any luck getting MAIL to work in a UUCP environment. > I tried to set up sendmail.cf to use UUCP, but it still fails with > "hostname lookup failed" errors. Seems maybe it's trying to use a nameserver > Anyone have outbound mail working on 386BSD in a UUCP environment? Eh, well, that's also my problem. The first thing I did was to set the "routedflags" in /etc/rc to "NO". So, the startup scripts doesn't start the router. Then you have to configure the /etc/hosts file. Please don't alter the entry for "localhost"! If you have done this, a call to gethostbyname will return correct results if you query for a name. See the manpages for gethostbyname for further help. I think there's a problem with sendmail. I think the sample sendmail.cf file is for a site connected via ethernet to the internet. Has anybody a correct sendmail.cf? Or, does anybody know which version of sendmail is supplied with 386BSD 0.1? Jan-Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan-Oliver Neumann mav@encap.hanse.de - We all know what makes the flowers grow, but we don't know why, we all have the knowledge of DNA, but we still die... (New model army)