w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) (11/28/88)
Seeing all this discussion about rerouting, pathalias, internet name servers, et. al., I'm a bit confused. Not wishing to clutter up this group with a bunch of pretty obvious questions, could I ask if there's someone out there who'd be willing to teach me the basics of UUCP administration? E.g. I have just unpacked my Unix box (NeXT? Sun? Whatever.) and would like to hook myself up to UUCP mail, Usenet, etc. I wish to be a good citizen and pick a non-colliding name, notify the right people, set up my mailer (what *is* the copyright status of sendmail?) to do The Right Things, etc. What should I be doing? If someone could spare the time, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks! -- -Colin (microsof!w-colinp@sun.com <-is this legal? All I know is that It usually works.)
waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters) (11/29/88)
In article <1024@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes: >Seeing all this discussion about rerouting, pathalias, internet name servers, >et. al., I'm a bit confused. ME TOO! > >Not wishing to clutter up this group with a bunch of pretty obvious questions, >could I ask if there's someone out there who'd be willing to teach me the >basics of UUCP administration? I am no expert (just a little further along - I think) Here are some of the pointers to what you need. Look for the README posting in comp.mail.maps - It has much of the info you need to get set up in the maps. Get a copy of uuhosts, and smail. uuhosts includes a script for updating your maps automatically - with the problems currently being discussed here. Smail has a fairly good writeup (but cryptic!) on how the whole thing works - with smail of course. Basically you need to take the UUCP maps and use a program pathalias to generate a "routing tree" from you to everywhere. When you send mail another program - sendmail - looks up the route and sends the mail. Various of the utilities (smail, nmail, etc. etc.) either help sendmail or replace functions (or all of sendmail). News is handled by setting up a news feed with a neighbor, presumably NOT a toll call since there is a LOT of information sent. I assume that you have some access in order to post your question! I too am a novice and would appreciate corrections for any errors or ommissions I have made. As far as I know there is no complete writeup available, but the article "Notable Computer Networks" by John Quarterman et al in Communications of the ACM Oct 1986 (V29No.10) pp932-971 is an excellent introduction. The bibliography should lead you to whatever you need. -- Mike Waters (for your EDIFication) Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF (ANSI/EIA std. 548) support Mesa, AZ ...!sun!sunburn!dover!waters OR moto@cad.Berkley.EDU
markh@cutter.UUCP (Mark Hebets) (12/01/88)
In article <1024@microsoft.UUCP>, w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes: [Stuff deleted] > could I ask if there's someone out there who'd be willing to teach me the > basics of UUCP administration? We just got a copy of Managing UUCP and Usenet, from O'Reilly and Associates, 1-800-338-NUTS. I haven't read it all the way through yet, but I can see that it would have saved us a lot of trouble to have gotten it a long time ago. Not to mention that we wouldn't have aggravated our neighbors as much. If you're not in a big hurry, drop me a line in a few weeks when I have actually read it. There is a companion volume, Using UUCP and Usenet, that I haven't even cracked open yet. Both were in the 15-30 $ range. I'm not aware of any other books that cover the same territory. -- Mark Hebets, Software Applications Department, Radian Corp. PO 201088, Austin, TX 78720 (512)-454-4797 sun!texsun!radian!markh cs.utexas.edu!natinst/