chip@t12tst.UUCP (C. Rosenthal, SC4-23, x6-7651) (11/22/85)
Boy this upgrade is turning into a real mess...
Has anybody out there got UUCP working under V4 Eunice?
Problems I'm fighting right now:
O /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE gets trashed real bad. Lots and lots of garbage
characters (NULL's) and garbage lines in there.
O has anybody gotten the uucp images (uucico, startuucp, etc.) to install
with the proper privileges? am i facing the dreaded "underscore in a
device logical" problem here?
O does anybody know if L.cmds works and how to use it? it would be great
if it does. i've been sponging off a neighbor in the past for patched
uuxqt executables.
Other problems I'm having but haven't dug into enough to see if it is
just some stupid mistake on my part:
O cvtuaf gets very unhappy and gives up on clustered disks
O etc:login is truncating the /etc/ttytype information stuffed into TERM
And a flame for good measure:
O finger got broke in V4. It has the same problems w and who had in the
prior rev (e.g. a disorderly logout doesn't update the user databases).
Too bad, finger was such a useful utility when it was reliable.
And for balance:
O the new filename hashing is pretty trick. ls /usr/spool/uucp takes a
fraction of the time it used to.
Any suggestions, comments, or core dumps on my uucp problems would be
greatly appreciated.
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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara, (408) 496-7651
{intelca,idi,pyramid,qubix,cbosgd}!t12tst!chiptihor@acf4.UUCP (Stephen Tihor) (11/24/85)
The cvtuaf problem is that it is belching on device names with embedded $ or other special characters. While it ought to be possible to get TWG to fix this in the mean time make sure that there a device names in /dev and / which are <=14 characters long, all lower case letters and digits, which translate as logical names into the real devices on which accounts reside.