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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dial-up UUCP - help needed
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Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:31:09 GMT
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Ronald Hawkins <rhawkins@evansville.net> writes:

> I am new to the BSD platform of Unix, I have several years experience 
> with SCO but it feels like I have started over from scratch, please 

Or, as someone from the FSF named it: ``Using SCO is like travelling
back in time.'' ;-)

> excuse my ignorance.  I have been trying to configure a local uucp 
> dial-up mail feed using FreeBSD 2.0.5 and Taylor UUCP with little 

(Followup set to the FreeBSD group)

> success.  I can get the dial-up to work with any user at any speed for 
> standard login, but when uucico takes control of the port and I have 
> tried every device that seems to relate to comm 2, the connection 
> crashes and The uucico process hangs.

Make sure to set the port to hardware flow control.  This is best done
from /etc/rc.serial.

Run the command

	info uucp

to learn about the Taylor UUCP configuration.  Unless you are really
familiar with some older UUCP configuration method (like HDB), i would
strongly recommend using the Taylor UUCP one.  It is way more
rationale.  (Taylor UUCP does also understand the older ones, if i'm
not mistaken, it guesses the type of configuration by the names of
existing files like ``config'' -> Taylor, ``Systems'' -> HDB,
``L.sys'' -> V7 config.)

UUCP config files go under /etc/uucp/.  There are already some sample
files around.

Make sure to use the ``callout'' devices.  For what DOS calls COM2:,
this is /dev/cuaa1.  (However, the getty should run on the callin
device, /dev/ttyd1.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j