crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (05/17/89)
I am a UNIX novice and just now setting up my 386i SUN as a stand-alone workstation, but for some reason, I'm unable to get the "mail" to work properly using UUCP to another site. I get the following when I send mail to another site: $ mail -v acad!owen Subject: test This is a test Cc: $ acad!owen... Connecting to acad via uucp... uux failed. code -1 acad!owen... unknown mailer error 255 Saving message in /home/crunch/dead.letter /home/crunch/dead.letter... Sent I set up the L.sys files properly, and tested them with uucico manually, and the UUCP connection works just fine, it's when I use "mail" that causes the real problem. Does anyone out there know whats going on?? John D. uunet!acad!well!crunch Or uunet!acad!crunch
Max_Jeff_Rochlin@cup.portal.com (05/18/89)
John,
It sounds like you have a file permissions problem. Make sure that that you
have set L.sys for public access.
|pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) (05/18/89)
In article <18492@cup.portal.com> Max_Jeff_Rochlin@cup.portal.com writes: >It sounds like you have a file permissions problem. Make sure that that you >have set L.sys for public access. Yow! This would be a big mistake! Nobody should be able to read L.sys except "uucp" and "root"; it contains phone numbers, login names, and passwords for remote systems. All of the uucp utilities are appropriately set-uid to be able to read these files. John's original problem does sound like uux is having problems opening a file. It could be that uux is not set-uid (mine is mode 6111, owner "uucp", group "daemon"), or that a file it's trying to open either does not exist or is not owned by "uucp". Check and make sure all the files and directories under /usr/spool/uucp are owned by "uucp". --Pat.