[net.bugs.uucp] UUCP on MV/UX

jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) (07/22/85)

Does anyone have experience running uucp under DG's layered
UNIX (I believe that's MV/UX or DG/UX).

I've done most of the obvious things in setting it up, and
run the standard set_uucp_acls.cli.  I even found the
utsname file (given I'm used to BSD-like uucp, that was
an accomplishment).

However, both uuname and uux claim they can't find L.sys.
I know it's right there, in the same directory as "l.sys.proto".
The protections have been everything from standard to 705.
(DG doesn't support group ACL's).  This even happens when
I use the AOS "superuser on" before dropping to UX.

	file " /usr/lib/uucpsys/L.sys " is protected
	after I've	chmod 705 /usr/lib/uucpsys
			chmod 705 /usr/lib/uucpsys/l.sys

	) on
	*) csh
	# uuname
	file "....." is protected
	# what uuname
		uuname.c 2.1
	# mail gould9\!joel
	...
	...
	uux failed
	bad system name (gould9)
	# uusub -l
	only uucp or root is allowed to run uusub

I wonder if this has anything to do with the "case folding" used
to map L.sys into "l.sys".

Anyone who's got it working on another system or who has any ideas,
I'd love to hear them.

	Joel West	CACI, Inc. - Federal (c/o UC San Diego)
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	jww@SDCSVAX.ARPA
(and, hopefully someday, sdcsvax!gould9!cacimv!joel)

smithrd@rtp47.UUCP (Randy D. Smith) (07/25/85)

Joel West asks why uuname, etc., complain that "/usr/lib/uucpsys/L.sys"
is protected on MV/UX (a UNIX[tm of AT&T] look-alike hosted on DG's
AOS/VS).  The reason for the complaint has to do with MV/UX's attempts
to protect the L.sys file.  Without setuid, MV/UX cannot use the
traditional protection mechanism, so it protects the file in another
directory (/usr/lib/uucpsys), and expects that publicly available information
 will be provided in a "sister" file named pubsys.

If you look at your release notice for MV/UX, Joel, you will notice
that there is a section that asks you to
	) become uucp
	) x uusys
	) bye
while in the /usr/lib/uucp directory.  uusys, when run by uucp (so that
you can access the L.sys file), creates the pubsys file.  It contains
the first column of the L.sys file (i.e., systems you talk to).
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			   Data General, Research Triangle Park, NC
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