don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) (01/08/91)
I'm trying to get UUCP Plus with arn and dmail running to recieve news & mail from here at brahms. After doing the required assigns, mounts, etc, I edited the various configuration files and triedto get uucico working. I had problems connecting, apparently because it was waiting for the ogin: & sword: strings to be sent but for some reason didn't recognize them. I ended up just throwing in a bunch of delays at the beginning of each response (i.e ' "" \d\ddon "" \d\d(password)'.... and it finally connected. However, connect is all it did. I started DNet after uucico exited but before the connection broke off & found myself in my home directory just as if I had logged on normally. No unusual processes were running and my history file didn't indicate that anything special had been run (at least not through the login shell). I had posted a test article in arn and run "sendbatch -c brahms" to prepare it for sending, but it didn't. Are there any fairly common mistakes that cause this behavior, or any likely problems? Another question: I used Dmail before connecting to send a test message to a friend @brahms. I got a "no palias database found" message, and the logfile indicated "all addresses unknown." I started trying to figure out the domain/map stuff. I got the map file for DE from comp.mail.maps and ran createmap. It said "Can't get there from here:" and listed every entry in the map file. I tried playing around with a domain file but wasn't sure what I was doing. I also tried changing my domain setting in uulib:config to .udel.edu and .udel (also used the default .UUCP). Any ideas where I'm going wrong here? (I suppose I should go read some of the "news" newsgroups to familiarize myself with how these systems are interconnected...) I have a feeling it's something in my domain file that needs to be added/changed before the createmap will do me any good. A rather naive question I should have asked first: can UUCP simply be run from my account on brahms, or is there some special setup/login on the Unix side that needs to be handled to add my node name to a list of newsfeeds somewhere? The rather skimpy UUCP+ docs don't seem to indicate either way for sure... Thanks for any help! -- Gibberish Amiga 3000 owner/fanatic is spoken Contact don@brahms.udel.edu for more information. here. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.
ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) (01/10/91)
In article <17334@brahms.udel.edu> don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes: [ ... ] > > A rather naive question I should have asked first: can UUCP simply be >run from my account on brahms, or is there some special setup/login on the >Unix side that needs to be handled to add my node name to a list of newsfeeds >somewhere? The rather skimpy UUCP+ docs don't seem to indicate either way >for sure... The UUCP+ docs don't cover setting up the other end of your UUCp link (it would be different for every machine/OS). You do need a special account on brahms. Under UNIX, the account must have uucico as the login shell instead of csh/ksh, or whatever. It usually is a special account name as well, so that the permissions are right. > >Thanks for any help! > > >-- > Gibberish Amiga 3000 owner/fanatic > is spoken Contact don@brahms.udel.edu for more information. > here. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault. _MY_FAULT_? No way, man... ben@epmooch.UUCP