bowen@sunybcs (Devon E Bowen) (02/14/88)
I'm not really sure if this is the place for this, but it seems to fit
in with the comp.mail.maps discussion...
We've got all of our news stored on a machine with no users. All of our
users read news with rrn. When we unpack our maps they get unpacked and
stored on this machine and the pathalias program runs there to build the
data base. My question is, is there software that will allow our users
on the other machines to access this info? Right now we're just doing a
remote execution of a program that looks up the path they'd like. This
seems really sloppy to me, though.
One possibility is socket number 117 in /etc/services (4.3 BSD). This
port is labeled "uucp-path" which seems to suggest that there should be
a daemon that serves uucp paths through this port. I don't know if
there is such an implementation or even if a protocol defined for this
socket. If there is, can someone point me to software or an RFC?
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
University at Buffalo
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