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From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
Subject: Re: Bug? (uucp settings)
Organization: 1 Bagshot Row, the Shire
Message-ID: <DCGLJ7.uA@bagend.atl.ga.us>
References: <3v70u7$55i@news.bu.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 03:54:43 GMT
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What you are seeing is the sample files from a standard Taylor UUCP
distribution.  These listed locations are System V'isms.  They are
where they should be for FreeBSD, in /etc/uucp.

Sorry, I only do mail-by-modem.  However, there are examples of what
you want in the gnu info format in /usr/share/info/uucp.info-?.

In article <3v70u7$55i@news.bu.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>Every (or almost every) file in /etc/uucp says that it (the file) has to
>be modified and then put into the misterious /usr/local/conf/uucp...
>(It is called a default place for uucp-configuration files, although
>leaves a hint, that the place could've been modified).
>
>Well, sys and conf files are read from where they are -- /etc/uucp .
>No other files are accessed by uucico (according to `ls -lu'). 
>
>They are not read from /usr/local/conf/uucp, according to the same source.
>
>BTW, if someone will give me their /etc/uucp files, which let his machine,
>retrieve mail from another box OVER the Internet (without phone call), I'll
>be more then gratefull. Thanks!