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) {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww 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). -- Randy D. Smith (919) 248-6136 Data General, Research Triangle Park, NC <the known world>!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!smithrd