[H-GEN] Fun with UUCP [or, Fun with exim, part II]

[Anthony Towns]

Insert random praise for UUCP here, and you can basically skip to the
next message.

Anyway, I managed to get azure setup pretty well on wednesday night,
but couldn't do anything about chronos [the other end] until yesterday.

Well, I'd like to be able to tell you of the trials and tribulations
that were involved in getting it to work at that end, but, well, there
weren't any.

I got a little annoyed at Red Hat's default settings for UUCP, which
were a bunch of files containing nothing more than:
	# This is an example UUCP configuration file. Please
	# edit it to reflect your local setup.
	
	# Lines beginning with #'s are comments.

Some `example'. Feh. But I still had the Debian defaults on azure, and
I could just copy those across and everything was basically fine. I
think, but couldn't say for sure, that the RH defaults were owned by
root.root instead of uucp.uucp which caused problems, and there may
have been some dubious permissions (/etc/uucp/passwd being world
readable, eg), but other than, it was all pretty simple.

So, in summary, the setup on chronos is:

	/etc/uucp
		call:   azure   chronos         password

		port:   port TCP
			type tcp

		sys:	protocol gvGt
			protocol-parameter G packet-size 1024
			protocol-parameter G short-packets

			system azure
			call-login *
			call-password *
			time any
			chat "" \d\d\d\r\c ogin: \d\L word: \P
			address azure.humbug.org.au
			port TCP
			protocol tg

		config:	[empty]
		dial:   [empty]
		dialcode:       [empty]
		passwd: [empty]

and the setup on azure is:

	/etc/uucp
		Poll:	[empty]
		call:	[empty]
		config:	[empty]
		dial:	[empty]

		passwd:	chronos			pword4chronos
			deni			pword4deni

		port:	port TCP
			type tcp
			
		sys:	protocol gvGt
			protocol-parameter G packet-size 1024
			protocol-parameter G short-packets
			
			system chronos
			time any
			
			system deni
			time any

The only change from the Debian defaults was adding a "t" in the protocol
field in azure's /etc/uucp/sys to match the "t" in the protocol field
for chronos' "azure" entry.

The only thing I still need to work out is what I need to do for UUCP
services other than mail -- eg copying files from one machine to another,
and/or doing remote batched execution.

All in all it's kind of a disappointment. Unix isn't meant to be this
easy.

Cheers,
aj

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

Remember to breathe.
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