Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncrcae.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!wescott From: wescott@ncrcae.UUCP (Mike Wescott) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency Message-ID: <2120@ncrcae.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:48:10 EST Article-I.D.: ncrcae.2120 Posted: Fri Mar 1 11:48:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 04:48:23 EST References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: wescott@ncrcae.UUCP (Mike Wescott) Organization: NCR, Columbia, SC Lines: 44 Keywords: uucp, uucppublic Summary: +-------------------- |I tried this the other day with a site we talk to which is |trying to follow the System V "standard". Lo and behold, the |System V standard has "uucp" as a normal user whose home |directory is /usr/lib/uucp, and the uucico login is "nuucp". | |Great. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? Now, before |I transfer anything to/from a remote site's public directory, |I have to find out whether it's ~uucp or ~nuucp. (Or else |use /usr/spool/uucppublic and hope they haven't chosen to put |the public directory elsewhere.) | |Dave Sherman +-------------------- In a sense they did leave well enough alone, the public uucp directory which is not necessarily the home directory of uucp or nuucp can be specified with a simple ~ : uucp xxx yyy!~ transfers xxx to machine yyy as /usr/spool/uucppublic/xxx (or whatever directory is PUBDIR on yyy). Similarly, uucp xxx yyy!~/zzz ends up as /usr/spool/uucppublic/zzz/xxx. And uucp xxx yyy!~/zzz/xyz creates file /usr/spool/uucppublic/zzz/xyz on machine yyy. Note the differences: ~ PUBDIR ~/x directory PUBDIR/x ~/x/y file y in dirctory ~/x It gets a little bewildering at times, trying to figure out what the file will end up as on the remote. Michael Wescott NCR Corp. mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!wescott usceast!ncrcae!wescott