pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch) (04/20/88)
Is there an easy way for "vanilla" UUCP to transfer files to a node that is not directly connected to the local system? (i.e. forwarding...) What I mean is how can I do the following: uucp file neighbor!site2!site3!file (Note that I want to do this only within our local UUCP "network", as I know this would not be nice to do to unsupecting hosts...) Our computers are 386 machines and NCR Tower-32's running (basically) SVR2 Unix (SCO Xenix 386)... Thanks in Advance Pat Pesch
wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) (04/21/88)
Under HDB UUCP, such a thing can be accomplished if all sites involved have the uucp command enabled in the Permissions file. I think. ..b
bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (04/22/88)
In article <8904@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: >Under HDB UUCP, such a thing can be accomplished if all sites involved have >the uucp command enabled in the Permissions file. [L.cmds in version 2] > >I think. [I think the originator must use uux instead of uucp also] > >..b I think so too, the Xenix doc that I have, Vr2.2.3 is silent about it but I have seen a number of references to /usr/lib/uucp/ORIGFILE and FWDFILE. The Nutshell book and Microport System V/AT agree that ORIGFILE allows a site to forward to any site known to your site if FWDFILE does not exist and FWDFILE, if it exists, determines sites to whom forwarding may be done. Those are for version 2 uucp, not HDB. I have a little of each, two HDB systems and two version 2, but have not tried to forward with any of them. I have seen no mention of forwarding in the SCO documentation but it's worth a shot. ORIGFILE is laid out system or system,user,user2,... In conclusion and to repeat what has already been posted, the O'Reilly "Managing UUCP and Usenet" book is immensely helpful for a mere mortal to understand this stuff, (800) 338-6887. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {rutgers,ihnp4!killer,cbosgd}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM