rlk@tusun2.knet.utulsa.edu ( Richard L. Kruse II) (05/05/89)
I am trying to connect a Harris MCX5 (running some flavor of UNIX) to the rest of my local network. The desire is for the Harris to serve as a mail host for the EE department here at the university. For the most part, communication across the ethernet seems to work, with one glaring exception: the Harris doesn't (yet?) speak SMTP. What it does provide is a uucp daemon that can communicate via tcp port #251. What I intended to do was to try to configure my main domain mail forwarder, a Sun 3/160 running 4.0.1, to send mail to the Harris using the uucp protocol over tcp. I added entries to my /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files (below), but when I started inetd, I got messages like > Apr 24 15:26:42 tusun2 inetd[174]: uucico/tcp: unknown service The /etc/services entry is: > uucico 251/tcp uucp The /etc/inetd.conf entry is: > uucico stream tcp wait root /usr/lib/uucp/uucico uucico If I try to telnet into the Sun using port 251, I get "connection refused". If I telnet into the Harris on this port, I get the uucico "Shere". I also noticed that our 386i seems to be partially set up for this type of behavior, as its /etc/services contains this line: > uucp 540/tcp uucpd # uucp daemon but it is not mentioned in /etc/inetd.conf. What am I missing? Is there a (better) way to do this? I hate to dedicate a slowwwwww serial line when we have the ethernet in place. Thanks in advance for any advice. Rick Kruse University of Tulsa