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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP - UUXQT question
Message-ID: <9106282319.35@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 91 08:19:00 GMT
References: <430@dogear.spk.wa.us> <2229@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <2229@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>In article <430@dogear.spk.wa.us> root@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>>He just bought Coherent, which (I guess) is running HDB UUCP.
>
>Does Coherent's version of UUCP have a "Permissions" file?  If so, it
>sounds like a HDB, and the:

Coherent does have a "Permissions" file.

>>The errormessage in his logs say No permission for Rnews.
>
>implies that "rnews" hasn't been mentioned in the Permissions file.
>(In HDB, you have to explicitly enable permission to remotely execute
>commands.  Except for rmail (which is what e-mail uses) which is the
>default.  If you put rnews in, you'll have to mention rmail as well.

There is a "COMMMAND=" in the "Permissions" file.

One of his problems is the system name of the calling system.

Coherent only accepts up to seven characters for a system name.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP