HELP?!? UUCP under V4 Eunice (and other tribulations)

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2 total messages Started by C. Rosenthal, SC4-23, x6-7651 Fri, 22 Nov 1985 05:55

Author: C. Rosenthal, SC4-23, x6-7651
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 05:55

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Boy this upgrade is turning into a real mess...

Has anybody out there got UUCP working under V4 Eunice?
Problems I'm fighting right now:

O  /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE gets trashed real bad.  Lots and lots of garbage
   characters (NULL's) and garbage lines in there.

O  has anybody gotten the uucp images (uucico, startuucp, etc.) to install
   with the proper privileges?  am i facing the dreaded "underscore in a
   device logical" problem here?

O  does anybody know if L.cmds works and how to use it?  it would be great
   if it does.  i've been sponging off a neighbor in the past for patched
   uuxqt executables.

Other problems I'm having but haven't dug into enough to see if it is
just some stupid mistake on my part:

O  cvtuaf gets very unhappy and gives up on clustered disks

O  etc:login is truncating the /etc/ttytype information stuffed into TERM

And a flame for good measure:

O  finger got broke in V4.  It has the same problems w and who had in the
   prior rev (e.g. a disorderly logout doesn't update the user databases).
   Too bad, finger was such a useful utility when it was reliable.

And for balance:

O  the new filename hashing is pretty trick.  ls /usr/spool/uucp takes a
   fraction of the time it used to.

Any suggestions, comments, or core dumps on my uucp problems would be
greatly appreciated.

-- 

Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara, (408) 496-7651
{intelca,idi,pyramid,qubix,cbosgd}!t12tst!chip

Re: HELP?!? UUCP under V4 Eunice (and other tribulations)

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Author: Stephen Tihor
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1985 20:31

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The cvtuaf problem is that it is belching on device names with embedded $ or
other special characters.  While it ought to be possible to get
TWG to fix this in the mean time make sure that there a device names in /dev and
/ which are <=14 characters long, all lower case letters and digits, which 
translate as logical names into the real devices on which accounts reside.

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