[comp.unix.questions] UUCP Over TCP/IP

mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) (06/29/88)

In bits of the BSD documentation, there is a mention of the TCP/IP UUCP server
deamon (i.e. /etc/uucpd).  My question is if you are the sending party, how
do you tell the system to use the UUCP protocol?   I find nothing in this
in connection with the L.sys file, in fact, I have really found nothing at
all.  

Can anybody enlighten me on /etc/uucpd and its operation, invokation, etc.?

Thanks....

gww@marduk.uucp (Gary Winiger) (06/30/88)

In article <175@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
>In bits of the BSD documentation, there is a mention of the TCP/IP UUCP server
>deamon (i.e. /etc/uucpd).  My question is if you are the sending party, how
>do you tell the system to use the UUCP protocol?   I find nothing in this
>in connection with the L.sys file, in fact, I have really found nothing at
>all.  

Page 2 of L.sys(5) in the 4.3BSD documentation documents a ``caller''
field value of TCP.  That will cause the sender's 4.3BSD UUCP system to
open a TCP connetion to the receiver's uucpd.  The receiver, of course,
needs to have configured access to uucpd.  I don't happen to have a 4.3
system on hand configured that way to tell you what the inetd.conf line
has to look like, but I recall it all being in the source directories
for uucp.  (If it isn't already configured.)

Gary..

ntm1569@dsacg3.UUCP (Jeff Roth) (06/30/88)

From article <10036@marduk.uucp>, by gww@marduk.uucp (Gary Winiger):
[responding to mparker@chip.UUCP's question on the TCP/IP UUCP service]

> Page 2 of L.sys(5) in the 4.3BSD documentation documents a ``caller''
> field value of TCP.  That will cause the sender's 4.3BSD UUCP system to
> open a TCP connetion to the receiver's uucpd.  The receiver, of course,
> needs to have configured access to uucpd.  I don't happen to have a 4.3
> system on hand configured that way to tell you what the inetd.conf line
> has to look like, but I recall it all being in the source directories
> for uucp.  (If it isn't already configured.)

from our /etc/inetd.conf:
uucpd  stream  tcp  nowait  uucp  /etc/uucpd  uucpd

from our /etc/services:
uucp    540/tcp    uucpd    # uucp daemon

from our /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys:
dsacg1 Any TCP uucp dsacg1 ogin:--ogin:--ogin: Udsacg3 ssword: PASSWORD
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hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (07/01/88)

In article <175@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
>In bits of the BSD documentation, there is a mention of the TCP/IP UUCP server
>deamon (i.e. /etc/uucpd).  My question is if you are the sending party, how
>do you tell the system to use the UUCP protocol?   I find nothing in this
>in connection with the L.sys file, in fact, I have really found nothing at
>all.  
>Can anybody enlighten me on /etc/uucpd and its operation, invokation, etc.?

On my Pyramid, it is set up like this in the L.sys file:

sitename Any TCP uucp sitename in:--in: nuucp password: hispassword

The site I send to is a Unisys system that doesn't have the /etc/uucpd
daemon, but does have telnet, so I use:

sitename Any TCP telnet sitename in:--in: nuucp password: hispassword

--
Greg