rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) (04/11/91)
Well, I did finally get Coherent UUCP talking to the world. Thanks to those who offered thir comments. It turned out to be a problem with the modemcap definitions (of course), as well as a bad connection at the end belonging to the system I was trying to talk to. A related curiousity I've discovered is that modeminit does not work when invoked from the rc startup routine, though it works fine if invoked by root once the system is up. I know that at least one other person has mentioned this problem, but I've not heard anyone offer an explanation or a fix. Granted, it's a trivial thing to manually call modeminit, but it is a nuisance. Oh-- before I end. I'm involved in setting up a mail exchange between students at a couple of high schools, and one of the things we'd like to do is set up a mailing list that will allow a student to mail to many accounts by just mailing to a single address (I know, use news...). What's the usual method of implementing such a thing? Define a huge alias consisting of all the users on the mailing list? Or perhaps writing a shell routine to forward all received mail to a list of users? -Roy Wood (rrwood@contact.uucp)
nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) (04/15/91)
One little perversity in my Coherent installation is that I have to use the ttys line 1r3com3pl in order to get things to work right. Notice - this line has my modem on it and I cannot use modem control on the com line - modeminit AND uucp won't work if the line is set to com3pr. Don't ask me why, but the system works as it is and I dare not touch it. (It will also accept logins, even without modem control.) -Nathan Lane