The Linux UUCP HOWTO
Guylhem Aznar <guylhem at metalab.unc.edu>
v2.0.1, 2001-12-01
This document describes the setup, care & feeding of UUCP under Linux. You need to read this if you plan to connect to remote sites via UUCP via a modem, via a direct-connection, or via Internet. You probably do *not* need to read this document if don't talk UUCP or if you don't know what it means.
1. Introduction, copyright & standard disclaimer
2. Other sources of information
3. Requirements
4. Setting up the config files
- 4.1 Installing config. files
- 4.2 "Poll" file
- 4.3 "call" file
- 4.4 "config" file
- 4.5 "crontab" file
- 4.6 "dial" file
- 4.7 "passwd" file
- 4.8 "port" file
- 4.9 "sys" file
- 4.10 Now let's test all this
- 4.11 Additional informations
5. It doesn't work - now what?
6. Frequently Asked Questions about Linux UUCP
- 6.1 Why is all the info here for UUCPs configured in "Taylor" rather than
- 6.2 Why do I get "timeout" on connections when I upgraded to uucp-1.04?
- 6.3 Why doesn't HDB anonymous uucp seem to work?
- 6.4 What does "no matching ports found" mean?
- 6.5 What are known good config files for HDB mode?
- 6.6 Getting uucico to call alternate numbers
7. Acknowledgements
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