Книга: Linux Network Administrator Guide, Second Edition

Taylor Configuration Files

Taylor Configuration Files

We now return to the configuration files. Taylor UUCP gets its information from the following files:

config

This is the main configuration file. You can define your site's UUCP name here.

sys

This file describes all known sites. For each site, it specifies its name, what times to call it, which number to dial (if any), what type of device to use, and how to log on.

port

This file contains entries describing each available port, together with the line speed supported and the dialer to be used.

dial

This file describes dialers used to establish a telephone connection.

dialcode

This file contains expansions for symbolic dial codes.

call

This file contains the login name and password to be used when calling a system. Rarely used.

passwd

This file contains login names and passwords that systems may use when logging in. It is used only when uucico does its own password checking.

Taylor configuration files are generally made up of lines containing keyword-value pairs. A hash sign introduces a comment that extends to the end of the line. To use a hash sign to mean itself, escape it with a backslash like this: #.

There are quite a number of options you can tune with these configuration files. We can't go into all the parameters, but we will cover the most important ones here. Then you should be able to configure a modem-based UUCP link. Additional sections describe the modifications necessary if you want to use UUCP over TCP/IP or over a direct serial line. A complete reference is given in the Texinfo documents that accompany the Taylor UUCP sources.

When you think you have configured your UUCP system completely, you can check your configuration using the uuchk tool (located in /usr/lib/uucp). uuchk reads your configuration files and prints out a detailed report of the configuration values used for each system.

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