I spent an hour or so last night figuring out why the uucpd daemon wasn't
starting from the rc.d/rc.uucp script. It turns out that the option
parsing gets confused on the -l option to uucico, and adding ``--'' in
front of the ``uucico -l'' part of the command (I think the last time I ran
into this, I punted by starting uucico from inetd rather than try to figure
out how uucpd really worked :-).
The patch to the uucp.spec file changes the ownership of everything to
``uucp'' instead of the openpkg defaults. While it works now with TCP
connections, it wouldn't work on dialup uucp connections where one is using
dial in and dial out on the same modem device. At least on Linux and SCO
OpenServer systems, the getty procedures change the ownership of the modem
devices to ``uucp'' while listening for connections, and at least
``uucico'' needs to be able to read and write these.
I haven't tested this yet with dialup lines, but will be in the near future
since I am going to be replacing our dialup uucp and HylaFAX machine which
is now running Caldera OpenLinux 1.2 (kernel version 2.0.35). I will
probably be building an OpenPKG package for HylaFAX when I do this.
Bill
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- Machiavelli
--- rc.uucp.orig 2004-09-20 07:33:41.000000000 -0700
+++ rc.uucp 2005-03-02 12:06:04.833532068 -0800
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
}
uucp_start () {
( @l_prefix@/sbin/uucpd ${uucp_bind}${uucp_bind:+:}${uucp_port:-uucp} \
- @l_prefix@/sbin/uucico ${uucp_flags} \
+ -- @l_prefix@/sbin/uucico ${uucp_flags} \
</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
echo $! >$uucp_pidfile
) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
--- uucp.spec.orig 2004-10-11 11:49:21.000000000 -0700
+++ uucp.spec 2005-03-02 12:05:12.899871892 -0800
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
Group: Communication
License: GPL
Version: 1.07
-Release: 2.2.0
+Release: 20050302
# list of sources
Source0: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/uucp/uucp-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/info/dir
strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/* 2>/dev/null || true
strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/sbin/* 2>/dev/null || true
+ %define l_files_defattr '%defattr(-,uucp,uucp)'
%{l_rpmtool} files -v -ofiles -r$RPM_BUILD_ROOT \
%{l_files_std} \
'%config %{l_prefix}/etc/uucp/*'
