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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!swrinde!emory!bagend!jan From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Bug? (uucp settings) Organization: 1 Bagshot Row, the Shire Message-ID: <DCGLJ7.uA@bagend.atl.ga.us> References: <3v70u7$55i@news.bu.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 03:54:43 GMT Lines: 21 What you are seeing is the sample files from a standard Taylor UUCP distribution. These listed locations are System V'isms. They are where they should be for FreeBSD, in /etc/uucp. Sorry, I only do mail-by-modem. However, there are examples of what you want in the gnu info format in /usr/share/info/uucp.info-?. In article <3v70u7$55i@news.bu.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: >Every (or almost every) file in /etc/uucp says that it (the file) has to >be modified and then put into the misterious /usr/local/conf/uucp... >(It is called a default place for uucp-configuration files, although >leaves a hint, that the place could've been modified). > >Well, sys and conf files are read from where they are -- /etc/uucp . >No other files are accessed by uucico (according to `ls -lu'). > >They are not read from /usr/local/conf/uucp, according to the same source. > >BTW, if someone will give me their /etc/uucp files, which let his machine, >retrieve mail from another box OVER the Internet (without phone call), I'll >be more then gratefull. Thanks!