[comp.sys.amiga] UUCP 1.06D <-> UNIX UUCP

jose@hpsad.HP.COM (Jose Gomez-Rubio (SEED Student)) (08/02/90)

I've installed Matt's UUCP 1.06D on a A500.

I currently have a direct connect to a Unix box at 9600 baud.

I've constructed a NULL modem adapters with pins 2 & 3 switched and pin 7
straight through for a total of 3 active pins.

I can log on to the Unix box using VLT with no problem but when I attempt
to 'uucico -r1 -x9 -o -Sfoobar' on the A500 nothing happens.
I do have stuff queued up for the machine by 'dmail foobar!root'.

The L.sys entry is:
 foobar Any SER: 9600 5555555 "" \d\r\d\c ogin: uucp sword: uucp

I can invoke uucp by logging in as uucp on the Unix box using VLT.
I do get the message:
 shere=foobar

I've read the docs but no mention of how to handle a direct UUCP connection.
On Unix machines, it's pretty straightforward.  I even tried replacing the
L.sys phone number using a '-' as per Unix machine.  No go.

So my problem is that when uucico goes to debug mode at level 9, I see
what's happening but the no login response from the Unix box.

Appreciate any help.
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jose@hpsad.hp.com

stefano@cbmita.UUCP (Stefano Lamon) (08/03/90)

In article <730007@hpsad.HP.COM> jose@hpsad.HP.COM (Jose Gomez-Rubio (SEED Student)) writes:

> [...]

>I've read the docs but no mention of how to handle a direct UUCP connection.

Look at uucico source. There is an undocumented switch "-o" which overrides
the modem stuff.
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thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (08/04/90)

jose@hpsad.HP.COM (Jose Gomez-Rubio (SEED Student)) in <730007@hpsad.HP.COM>
writes about problems direct-connecting an Amiga running Matt's UUCP 1.06D
with a UNIX box.

True.  The Amiga UUCP package assumes a modem connection ONLY.  The trick I
used at the FAUG demo I gave earlier this year was to connect the Amiga via
RS-232 to a StarLAN terminal server box which more-or-less resembles a modem,
patch the Amiga's uucico to send two CR's (for autobaud on the StarLAN box)
instead of "ATDT", and change /etc/issue on the UNIX box to have "CONNECT"
as its first line ... these kludges faked-out AmigaUUCP so that it thought
it was talking to a modem.  Sheesh.

The other solutions are to either rewrite the dial stuff in AmigaUUCP or
to run standard UUCP on Amiga UNIX.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]