Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: phi@insearch.cam.org (Phi) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: UUCP for Minix Message-ID: <24365@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 90 16:39:04 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.EDU Lines: 121 >From: Fred van Kempen >Subject: My U-MAIL, W-MAIL and UUCP packages: the status !! >The new W-MAIL has the following extras: >1. ....... >2. Very much improved (really mailx-style) multi-page summary. > Wim van Dorst rewrote the entire summary() code. It looks great! It is very helpful if the summary also gives size of each message >3. Mail Editor and Tilde Escapes. > When inputting a message from stdin, you can now use the mailx-style > "tilde" escapes (like ~e, ~v, ~r, ~mN, ...) for editing messages. > This also works when (r)eplying to a message; you can now insert the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > message to which you are replying (prefixed by "> "s). Can W-MAIL reply mail coming from remote sites. Presently it assumes all replies are for local mail only ( or I don't know how to use it at its full strength ?) I am sending this mail with the UUCP package that Fred is discussing, it runs under Minix v1.5 inside an XT clone which is devoted for mail and UUCP. I started to receive minix-l from vm1.nodak.edu yesterday. THANK YOU ALL WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE. Special thanks to Marc Boucher@CAM.ORG, Peter Housel, Fred Van Kempen and Glen Overby (in alphabetical order :-) Now, to some technical points: 1/- Everything is OK when I used uutry to invoke uucico manually. When I put uupoll in crontab, uucico.log showed that uucico was receiving files OK but lmail could not diliver the mail (permission problem) and it just cleans up /usr/spool/uucp. (Please see the relevant information at the end of this message.) I removed uupoll from crontab and am receiving mail manually with uutry. 2/- I have to issue 2 or more "modem -o tty1" to put uugetty in pause state. 3/- Also, kermit is stuck at 300 baud. To overcome this I put "! stty 2400 < /dev/tty1" in .kermrc ( on top of "stty 2400 < /dev/tty1" in /etc/rc). 4/- When I save a message erroneously with "s 2 group", the current message instead of message #2 as intended, is saved as "2 group" which I could never access ( it's ls'ed though .) 5/- dead.letter has mode 600 and owner root.daemon so a regular user can't read his own dead.letter. Topic now changed to " How to manage UUCP and USENET". 1/- How can I put Postmaster to work. What would be the proper entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group for daemon, mail, uucp, Postmaster .... (all the entries for UUCP and mail.) 2/- Does anyone know if CNEWS can be compiled with the infamous current PC ACK-C compiler. ***************** Following is the relevant information. ****************** (That might have caused the problem with uupoll in /usr/lib/crontab) /usr/spool drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 32 Jan 1 70 locks drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 80 Jul 9 9:29 mail drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp uucp 336 Jul 9 9:28 uucp drwxrwxrwx 2 uucp uucp 80 Jan 1 70 uucppublic /tmp drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 176 Jul 9 9:36 /tmp /usr/spool/mail -rw-rw---- 1 phi daemon 1440 Jul 9 9:29 phi -rw-rw---- 1 root daemon 3028 Jul 9 9:29 root /usr/bin -rwsr-sr-x 4 root daemon 24536 Jul 6 15:31 /usr/bin/lmail -rwsr-sr-x 4 root daemon 24536 Jul 6 15:31 /usr/bin/mail -rwsr-sr-x 2 root daemon 23648 Jul 6 15:46 /usr/bin/rmail /bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 10246 Jan 1 70 /bin/cron /usr/lib/uucp -r-sr-s--- 1 uucp uucp 127 Jul 7 16:55 /usr/lib/uucp/uutry -r-sr-s--- 1 uucp uucp 554 Jul 7 16:55 /usr/lib/uucp/uupoll /etc/passwd root:U/ot|Jg{1X0G3:0:0::/root: uucp:*:40:40:Unix-Unix Copy:/usr/spool/uucp:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico daemon:*:1:1::/etc: bin:*:2:2::/bin: phi:jj000KW07SW00:3:0:Phi:/usr/phi: /etc/group root::0:root other::1: bin::2:root,bin,daemon,uucp sys::3:root,bin,sys,adm adm::4:root,adm,daemon uucp::40:uucp mail::7:root daemon::12:root,daemon cron::16: lp::18:lp mem::20: sysadmin::23:sysadmin group::50: