[124744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Sun Apr 4 15:25:53 2010
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:24:53 -0600 (MDT)
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AF803635-EA8A-4E6D-B07F-CA55B4277162@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote commands, but I confess that my memory is also dim about whether
>
> uucp file a!b!c
>
> would be translated automatically. It has indeed been a while...
I'm pretty sure it was adding 'uucp' in the commands list that enabled the
behaviour. HDB might have used a different config file syntax for turning
this on. I would have to dig out the source code to remember the details.
The command syntax you show above worked -- UUCP handled the re-queueing
internally.
--lyndon
