bill@wrangler.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (06/03/91)
This is not a TLI uucp question but I'm using TLI uucp as an example to illustrate my question. I've conquered HoneyDanBer over ethernet and I'm ready for more, but I seem to be staring at a blank wall. I have TLI working very nicely for RFS and uucp amongst an NCR Tower, 3B2/310, and Interactive 386en. Here are the entries in the dbf file for the "net_spec" I'm using: 101:n:listen:reserved:NULL,:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r0 -iTLI -u ussbn #ssbn 102:n:listen:reserved:NULL,:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r0 -iTLI -u udunsel #ssbn 104:n:listen:reserved:NULL,:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r0 -iTLI -u usentry #ssbn 105:n:listen:reserved:NULL,timod,:/usr/net/servers/rfs/rfsetup #RFS The multiple service codes (one for each node) are just a clumsy thing that I did so that each node uses the same Dialers script to contact any other node on the network, the dbf is from wrangler, and he "dials" service code 103 with the following: tliuucp "" "" NLPS:000:001:103\N\c This obviously works with the uucp on the other end since -i specifies the TLI interface and the 103 in the Dialers script says to use service code 103 on the receiver side. This is all well and good, service code 105 is RFS but I must confess I don't understand it well enough to be able to make the next step. Further, the AT&T, Interactive, and NCR examples are silent with regard to what I want to do. I can make a rather standard socket style server and client connection and it works, but that's not what I'm trying to do this time. I would like to have the uucp machine (wrangler) contact the (planned) news machine (ssbn) in a fashion similar to RFS and uucp and pour a news batch into ssbn's rnews. Since RFS and HDB uucp don't say how their clients get hold of their servers or what they talk about, I'll ASSume that the TLI listener gets the NLPS:000:001:103\0 and that means "do what ever you need for service code 103", which comes from /usr/net/nls/net_spec/dbf, and the slave uucico sets its interface to TLI and they proceed. There is nothing, however, that explains what the fields are in the NLPS string (so how'd I figure out how to make it work? lucky guesses...) or what they mean other than the service code right before the NULL. Further, there isn't anything that explains how you get connected such that you can pass in some kind of string like this to get the listener to fork a server for you. If I could learn more about it I think I could put a wrapper around it and call it rnews on wrangler and connect it to the "real" rnews on ssbn. I already know how to do it with remsh but I'd prefer to do it like uucp and RFS do it through the TLI listener. Can anyone point me somewhere where I might part the kimono and figure this out? Moreover, even if I did part the kimono, I'm not sure if I'd be looking at the front or the back... -- Bill Kennedy uucp {att,cs.utexas.edu,pyramid!daver}!ssbn.wlk.com!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or ssbn!bill@attmail.COM