uucp

Erik P. Olsen erik at epo.dk
Sat Nov 24 19:25:37 UTC 2007



Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Not really relevant to your query,
>>> but are you sure you need karl in the uucp group?
>>> I use uucp (I thought I was the only person left in the world using it)
>>> and I am not in the uucp group, which only contains the user uucp.
>>> Admittedly I use "port type tcp" but I wouldn't have thought
>>> that was relevant.
>>>
>> The default group for the serial ports is uucp.
> 
> But do you need to use a serial port for uucp
> if you are not using a serial modem,
> which I take it very few people on this list would be doing?
> 
> Do people normally use serial ports today?

I use /dev/ttyS0 for my fax and for that I need to be connected to group uucp 
and that works fine for my purpose.
> 
> Even if you are using a serial modem,
> I'm not entirely clear why you need to have access to ttyS?
> In my case, at least, uucp runs as a cron job
> and conveys my email to /var/spool/mail/<whoever>.
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Erik.




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