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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet!godzilla.UU.NET!ziegast
- From: ziegast@godzilla.UU.NET (Eric W. Ziegast)
- Subject: Sending files to SunOS 4.1.1 machines
- Message-ID: <BtM2Mr.Cx0@uunet.uu.net>
- Sender: usenet@uunet.uu.net (UseNet News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: godzilla.uu.net
- Organization: UUNET Technologies - Falls Church, VA
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:04:00 GMT
- Lines: 41
-
- I've been noticing that a somewhat trivial transfer of files to
- some of our subscriber sites has been failing. The common factor
- in these failed transfers is that the receiving sites all use
- SunOS's HDB implementation. We have a "uuto" script that takes
- a file (or list of files) and sends them to a subdirectory of
- their PUBDIR with the uucp command.
-
- Example for sending a file to foo!fred:
-
- $ uuto /archive/tmp/test foo!fred
-
- our script executes the uucp command:
-
- $ uucp -d -r /archive/tmp/test foo!~/reveive/uunet/fred/
-
- According to past experience this is correct and should work. Even
- the "Using UUCP and Usenet" tome says this is a correct way to send
- a file. The "~" is supposed to expand to the home directory of UUCP
- (the PUBDIR) which is /var/spool/uucppublic on Suns. One should be
- able to write "test" into the directory specified (after being auto-
- magically created).
-
- We receive reports of failures only from sites with SunOS. I have
- not heard of failures to sites with other platforms. With two SunOS
- sites I did some debugging and testing of various remote path names.
- The file would be sent by uucico to them and
-
- foo!~/... Doesn't work (Permission Denied)
- foo!~uucp/... Works (though tested with only one site)
- foo!/var/spool/... Works
-
- On these two sites the home directory of UUCP, directory permis-
- sions and Permissions files were set correctly. My guess is that
- their UUCP isn't correctly expanding the "~".
-
- Has anyone else noticed this? Is it a bug, feature, or just a config-
- uration problem that I'm not aware of? Or is someone lacing my Coke
- with hallucinogens? :^)
- --
- Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net
- UUNET Postmaster uunet!postmaster
-