On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:34:13PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
>$ uucp -m -n yourusername myfile path!to!yourhost!~/yourusername
>
>At least to hear O'Reilly tell it, this is a classic and normal use of UUCP.
Yeah, that used to be pretty common... Back when I first started using
Unix in the <gasp> 80s it was very common on a network to copy files from
one account to another using UUCP, login to another unix box using "cu",
etc... The functionality of copying to a specific account on another
machine is often disabled though because of security issues. Usually it's
just set up so you can copy to uucppublic, if anywhere...
>I guess YMMV. I've heard any number of UUCP-maintenance horror stories,
>and O'Reilly asserts the cover beast on the UUCP books is a bear in reference
>to the challenges of UUCP administration...
Yeah, dealing with a network of hundreds of machines talking UUCP is much
similar to dealing with large TCP/IP networks today, and it can indeed
present it's challenges...
Sean
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