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Re: Taylor UUCP on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Aug 5 10:36:27 1996
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
To: "Jan-Patrick Perisse Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br>
cc: linux-isp@pcg.com, taylor-uucp@gnu.ai.mit.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: "Jan-Patrick Perisse Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br>'s message of "Fri, 02 Aug 96 12:55:23 -0300."
<199608021555.MAA09857@bigboss.urbi.com.br>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 96 09:16:11 +0200
On Friday 2 August 96, at 12 h 55, the keyboard of "Jan-Patrick Perisse
Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br> wrote:
> I am an ISP and I would like to provide UUCP accont and service to BBSes and
> intranets.
Very good idea.
> I think it is possible to have all e-mail accounts of a BBS or
> intranet linked to just one account in my system making it sth like
> user%bbs@my.system isn't it? How Can I do it?
I don't really see why you want to do it. Why not the regular system?
(user@bbs.my.system or user@bbs.any-domain) It is certainly possible but
probably not easy. Have fun with sendmail.cf :-)
> I run Linux and I have compiler the last Taylor UUCP package. But I cannot find
> any configuation files nor i found help in the howtos.
The Taylor UUCP documentation is shipped separately (in the same archive,
see something like uucp-doc.tar.gz) and contains a lot of information. So
do the Linux archives. See a (partial) list on:
http://web.pasteur.fr/other/computer/Linux/my-BBS/
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide (on paper or in the Linux
servers) contains good information about UUCP.
> I have another problem: I have a machine with a multi-serial with the modems
> and the e-mail resides in another machine. How could I have the BBSes that
> make UUCP connections to the modem server get their mail packet in another
> machine?
It is certainly possible (but I didn't try it) to have an account with a
login shell which opens a connection to the UUCP server. But the simplest
way to do it is to use UUCP over TCP (much easier with Taylor-UUCP), so
UUCP will work over any routers, Internet lines, etc.
