Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!onion!riddle!domo
From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Honneydanbar documentation
Message-ID: <547@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 19:21:58 GMT
References: <455@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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Summary: Best HDB write-up in ;login:, May/June & July/August 1986

In article <455@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> 
>    Where can I find a good book on Honeydanbar UUCP ?  I'm trying to
> get it running here and none of my Unix books has much to say in so
> far as detailed installation/configuration information. Thanks.

The best reference I know of is

	;Login:	May/June 86:
	Honey Danber UUCP -- Bringing UNIX into the information age
		(part 1 of 2)
	Bill Reikin & Jim Webb

Part 2 is in the July/August 86 issue of ;login:, which is the journal of
Usenix.  Usenix can be contacted at usenix.UUCP!office (as I recall) for
information on how to purchase back-issues.  The lengthy articles give a
very readable (by UNIX initiates, at least) and complete run down on new, 
improved uucp (as implemented on the 3B2), with pithy analysis of 
why uucp needed renewing and improving.  See also

	_UNIX System Security_ 
	Wood & Kochan
	Hayden, 1985
	ISBN 0-8104-6267-2

which devotes most of its final chapter to Honey DanBer uucp.  It's a good
book to have around, anyway.

Apart from that, the genuwine AT&T _UNIX System V System Adminitrator's
Guide_ is a pretty good reference, too (thanks, AT&T for some worthwhile
documentation at last).  I have to hand the Intel 80286/80386 version,
which you can order in the US by calling 1-800-432-6600, and quoting the
magic incantation ``select code 307-681'' and a ``major credit card''
number.  (+44 1 317-352-8557 outside the US).  The version for the 3B2
is A LOT less expensive -- although still not cheap -- but my edition
does not have some useful stuff about uucp using AT&T's Network Listener
Service over networks, which is in the Intel edition.  Can't give you
the comcode for the 3B2 version -- it's locked in a cupboard.  Note that
the Administrator Guide is NOT among the UNIX V.3 documents republished
by Prentice-Hall, so you won't get it at B Dalton, or similar.  (You
should republish, Prentice-Hall: it's full of stuff people need to know.)

Another poster has mentioned the Nutshell Handbook on _Managing uucp and
Usenet_ published by O'Reilly and Associates.  I agree it's very good --
the XENIX support people around here have my copy more of the time than
I do -- but it doesn't cover Honey DanBer at all.  Is there a new edition
that does?  Perhaps ora!someone (I know you're out there!) would like to
clarify.  I saw something from them recently in newprod, but didn't save a
copy...
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp