Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!brian From: brian@motcsd.UUCP (Brian Smithson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: HoneyDanBer uucp question Keywords: uucp SystemV Message-ID: <601@engadm.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 89 21:18:20 GMT References: <572@starfire.UUCP> <1195@becker.UUCP> Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA Lines: 46 bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: >In article <572@starfire.UUCP> john@starfire.UUCP (John Lind) writes: >|NOTE: respond by e-mail -- my site doens't get this group anymore! >| >|What can I tell System V HoneyDanBer System Administrators that I want to >|call so that they can set up their Systems and Permissions files so that >|I can call them? It seems to have something to do with my long system >|name. Both of the SysV HDB systems that I want to communicate with can >|call me, and everything goes just fine. When I call them, they give me >|"You are unknown to me." HELP!! > Some uucp implementations send only the first > 6 or 7 characters of the system name. If this > is true of your system, you need to have that > name in the MACHINE and VALIDATE fields. > LOGNAME is restricted to 8 characters since > that's all most password files will handle. > You will probably have interesting problems with > "smail" on the HDB sites as well (if they use it), > if this turns out to be the problem... I have that problem here. I'm running System V and HDB with smail. Here's what I do: (1) Identify the system by the first 7 characters, e.g. "starfir" instead of "starfire", in the Systems and Permissions files. The login name (and LOGNAME entry in Permissions) can be as long as you want, but the trailing characters are probably ignored. (2) Put "starfire = starfir" in a glue file that gets fed to pathalias so that smail will recognize "starfire" as a valid name. This permits e-mail replies to work. It seems to work OK for e-mail and file transfers. Bear in mind that what I do here is what you will want to have your HDB neighbors do. You shouldn't have to do anything special on your system. -- -Brian Smithson, Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division 10700 N. De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014 USA, (408)864-2225 brian@csd.mot.com, {apple, pyramid, hplabs!hpda}!motcsd!brian -- -Brian Smithson, Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division 10700 N. De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014 USA, (408)864-2225 brian@csd.mot.com, {apple, pyramid, hplabs!hpda}!motcsd!brian