Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!mikes From: mikes@ncoast.ORG (Mike Squires) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Where to get docs for uucp installation Summary: it's fairly simple Message-ID: <13526@ncoast.ORG> Date: 4 Apr 89 05:43:24 GMT References: <1043@ittg.UUCP> <407@biar.UUCP> Reply-To: mikes@ncoast.ORG (Mike Squires) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 49 1. Make sure that you're running XENIX 3.2. There have been fixes/ improvements to getty and there is info on setting up the dialers that is found only in the OS manuals. 2. Fix your L-devices file; default is for a Tandy modem, there is an example in the XENIX user's manual (the one that comes with the run-time system, not the development system). 3. If you want to use a 9600 bps modem, you'll have to switch to one of the pd getty.c's as the TB+ won't work on my system with the 6000 port locked to 9600. If you will only be dialing out this is not a problem. 4. If you can get a copy of /usr/lib/uucp/uucico that comes with the 3.2 development system (now in beta test). It fixes the -x9 bug (no debugging information until after startup with the one in the 3.0 development system. 5. If you are not using the Tandy modem rm /usr/lib/uucp/dial and link the appropriate dialer. I use the "dial.c" as a template and have it working with a Paradyne FDX 2400, a USR HST 9600, a Telebit TB+, and a USR Dual mode. 9600 is max, but uucp runs at 850-900 bytes/sec using a TB+ and protocol spoofing. 6. At this point cu.s3 should work; if it doesn't then (1) the port is not disabled (2) L-devices is wrong (3) dialer is wrong. It is difficult to fix this if you don't have the new uucico. 7. Create an L.sys entry for each system that you wish to send mail/files to. XENIX uucp will accept anonymous uucp access if you leave the "uucp" entry in /etc/passwd. 8. Use "uucico -r1 -S -x9" to test the link; system should dial out, connect, any mail/files waiting should be collected. 9. You will need scripts to control polling, to remove /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE when you run out of disk space, etc. Several sites near me have netnews 2.11 running; I have 2.10. There are obviously many other issues, but the information above should help get uucp running. If anyone needs more help, scripts, etc., send mail to me at sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net (RS 6000, XENIX 3.2, TB+ running at 9600 used bi-directionally). Mike Squires Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335 814 332 3347 uucp: ..!cwjcc!ncoast!{mikes,peng!sir-alan!mikes} or ..!{pitt,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net or mikes@NCoast.ORG