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- From: hesse@cuckoo.UWaterloo.ca ()
- Subject: Re: UUCP headaches ...
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:55:47 GMT
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- svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay) writes:
- : Hi all
- :
- : I need to configure uucp over TCP/IP between two machines where the UUCP
- : nodename of the destination machine is *not* the same as the TCP/IP
- : nodename.
- :
- : I can do this very easily under SunOS. I simply configure
- : /etc/uucp/Systems with an entry like so:
- :
- : crs4 Any TCP - crs4gw.crs4.it ogin: Umachine ssword: xxx
- :
- : The fifth field specifies the TCP/IP hostname associated with the UUCP
- : destination.
- :
- : AIX 3.2 BNU does not recognise this syntax because it uses the fifth
- : field for specifying a protocol (g,t,e). Any suggestions? I do not want
- : to add "crs4" to /etc/hosts because that name is already taken by
- : another machine.
- :
- It's been a while since I played with UUCP but I think the MYNAME= option
- of the Permissions file will get around your problem.
-
- Bri
-