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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp RLOGIN failure code
Message-ID: <9351@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 89 19:03:53 GMT
References: <970@mcrware.UUCP> <238@wzv.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <970@mcrware.UUCP> kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf) writes:
>
>Perhaps someone knows what the nature of the problem I've been having
>with uucp.  The connection fails during the initial connection handshake
>portion of the protocol.  The remote side answers with "RLOGIN" rather
>than the expected "ROK":

	One possible problem (we saw this a few months ago) is that the 
remote site you're talking to doesn't have your system in their USERFILE (or
the corresponding HDB (BNU) UUCP file).  Your system MUST be in:

	Their /etc/passwd (i.e. there must be some UUCP login that you can use
		-- either your own system login, or nuucp, or something)
	Their L.sys file (your system name MUST appear here, even if they never
		call you)
	Their USERFILE (I think that when you appear in the above mentioned 
		files, but not here, you get the "RLOGIN" message from UUCP
		(which has nothing to do with the BSD "rlogin" program, which
		allows you to log in to a remote machine via TCP/IP))

You may also need to appear in their L.aliases file, if your hostname is too
long for their UUCP to deal with.

	Note, though, that I've only dealt with (as an admin, at least) BSD
UUCP.  For System V (HDB/BNU), your mileage may vary.  Check the related files
for problems, though.

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