Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency Message-ID: <530@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 21:21:06 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.530 Posted: Thu Feb 28 21:21:06 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 04:27:14 EST References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 26 > Since time immemorial (well, a few years anyway), the public > directory for shipping files to a remote system (normally > /usr/spool/uucppublic) has been user "uucp"'s home directory. > In other words, uucp file site!~uucp/file works. > > 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? My guess is that this was done to permit you to do "su uucp" and get something more meaningful on your terminal than "Shere". The S5R2 "cron" supports per-user crontabs, but a user can only install their own crontab (the manual page doesn't say that "root" can install another user's crontab). (System III also supplied "nuucp"). > Now, before I transfer anything to/from a remote site's public directory, > I have to find out whether it's ~uucp or ~nuucp. Try just "~"; it's supposed to default to UUCP's home directory. (Alternatively, just make "/usr/spool/uucppublic" "uucp"s home directory.) Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy