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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!UB.com!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: [386BSD] uucico does not work.... Message-ID: <fWwltpO@quack.sac.ca.us> Keywords: uucico uucp Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. References: <chk.723747144@mcshh.hanse.de> Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:18:21 UTC Lines: 38 In article <chk.723747144@mcshh.hanse.de> chk@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Christian Kuhtz) writes: > > Hi, > > I've got some problems with doing uucp on my 386BSD machine. > When I'm going to start uucico then he's loaded and terminated > without any message, without any abnormal exitcode. Just like > if everything is ok. > BUT HE HAD DONE NOTHING! > > Any idea ? Permissions ? I think I had already set anything possible > to uucp.uucp. Sticky bits are all set, I think :). I had the same problem initially, but I was able to get some valuable help from other 386BSD users and the problem went away. Essentially, you need to make absolutely sure the permissions and owners are correct on the /var/spool directories. They need to have writ > Any help would be appreciated, I need a solution quick. > If that doesn't work it would be a reason to kick 386BSD off this I wouldn't kick 386bsd off even if uucico didn't work. The alternative would be to go back to DOS, and getting uucp to run under that has got to be a lot worse than uucp under 386BSD. Of course, I could go with Linux, but I'd have to essentially start over from scratch at this point. > Regards, > Christian -- David E. Fox dfox@quack.sac.ca.us