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From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: UUCP configuration and clocal on FreeBSD-RELEASE
References: <CG8DqM.1rzu@austin.ibm.com>
Organization: private 386bsd site
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 20:33:15 GMT
Message-ID: <CGEBrt.JG@luva.stgt.sub.org>
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In article <CG8DqM.1rzu@austin.ibm.com> fredriks@austin.ibm.com (Lars Fredriksen) writes:
[...]
>	Basically, the way uucp is now configured the outgoing tty needs
>to have clocal turned off (-clocal) in order for uucp to be able to dial
>out. That is fine if you have a dedicated line, I don't and use faxd as
>my getty. Faxd will always make sure that clocal is turned on for the
>tty and this works well with tip, seyon and chat (I haven't installed kermit).
>
>	If I turn on the HAVE_CLOCAL_BUG in the uucp config file, uucp also
>works fine, with or without faxd.
>
>	So, does this mean FreeBSD has the clocal bug or not?

Please answer publically.

Thanks,
Michael.

P.S. Lars,
     as you will receive w/o any doubt email on the subject,
     please mail any interesting stuff to me too - or better
     post it to the group.
     (It seems that we uucp users are an absolute minority
     in *BSD land :-( )



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