jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (06/21/91)
Folks -
Concerning the "uucp" command problem, Alan Marcum @ NeXT e-mail me with
some more information, I e-mail him back and we cleared it up. There is
no bug, repeat NO BUG in the uucp command (I am not talking about uucp,
the communication protocol, BTW, just the plain unix uucp command).
The problem lies in the USERFILE. You have to make it so that the user
who is executing UUCP has access to the appropriate directory that they
want to uucp. Basically put, it means having either:
, /
or
jiro, /
so that the user can uucp any file in the directory tree. Of course,
paranoid sites would want to do:
jiro, /Users/jiro
or something more restrictive. Please see the man pages for more
detail.
I was real puzzled by this one -- the error message "permission denied"
makes sense now, but didn't when I didn't know to look at USERFILE.
Sigh, oh well....
- Jiro Nakamura
jiro@shaman.com
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