Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1411 comp.unix.questions:7857 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!marduk!gww From: gww@marduk.uucp (Gary Winiger) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UUCP Over TCP/IP Keywords: uucp, uucpd, bsd4.3 Message-ID: <10036@marduk.uucp> Date: 29 Jun 88 19:57:38 GMT References: <175@chip.UUCP> Reply-To: gww@sun.UUCP (Gary Winiger) Distribution: all Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16 In article <175@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes: >In bits of the BSD documentation, there is a mention of the TCP/IP UUCP server >deamon (i.e. /etc/uucpd). My question is if you are the sending party, how >do you tell the system to use the UUCP protocol? I find nothing in this >in connection with the L.sys file, in fact, I have really found nothing at >all. Page 2 of L.sys(5) in the 4.3BSD documentation documents a ``caller'' field value of TCP. That will cause the sender's 4.3BSD UUCP system to open a TCP connetion to the receiver's uucpd. The receiver, of course, needs to have configured access to uucpd. I don't happen to have a 4.3 system on hand configured that way to tell you what the inetd.conf line has to look like, but I recall it all being in the source directories for uucp. (If it isn't already configured.) Gary..