Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Re: Networks considered harmful/Re: USENIX board studies UUCP Message-ID: <7429@ficc.uu.net> Date: 27 Dec 89 16:15:06 GMT References: <7375@ficc.uu.net> <670004@gore.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 21 [ standardising chat scripts: login email, no password, 8n1... ] In article <670004@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: > I think we Unix system administrators have been doing this for so long, > that we forgot that it's not "UUCP" that requires a login and a password. > Just run uucico (or its equivalent) on the modem's port, instead of running > a getty->login->uucico. This is a problem for pre-SysV systems, which don't have an inittab so you can't have uucico run from init. Also, this requires that you dedicate a phone line to this function. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not do that. > [where do you get GNUUUCP] Check your comp.sources.amiga archives. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com