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From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
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Subject: Re: Is there such a thing as a uucp daemon?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:50:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.185715.16350@versyss.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun6.185715.16350@versyss.uucp>, philb@versyss.uucp (Phil Burtis) writes:
|> We are running SVR3.2 ATT Unix.  We have Interlan boards
|> and software.  We run TCP-IP (mostly telnet, ftp) and also
|> do some RFS over the net.  Would like to be able to have
|> uucp go over the net as well.  We've been told we need
|> a uucp daemon (uucpd?) and we don't know where to get it.
|> Interlan doesn't supply it, and ATT doesn't either.
|> Suggestions?  Thanks in advance for your time and reply.

Uucp doesn't need a daemon. uucico is started by /bin/login when the
calling system logs into the target machine. uucico is also started
on the outgoing side periodically (indirectly) cron.

	-John Kalucki