From jtkohl@zk3.dec.com Sun Jul 18 01:01:05 1993
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 09:55:30 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@zk3.dec.com>
To: sipb-minutes@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of Mon, 12 Jul 93 21:14:00 EDT,
	<9307130114.AA08377@milquetoast.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: "If someone asks if you're a news maintainer, you say 'No'"
X-Us-Snail: DEC, 110 Spit Brook Road, M/S ZKO3-3/U14, Nashua, NH  03062

>		Before the rearrange there was a serial link between
>podge and the phone.  jtkohl is going to recreate this link.

And I've done so.  From podge, run kermit (or your favorite serial-line
program) on /dev/tty00.  You'll get the command mode of the data part of
the telephone.  'dial 7003000' will get you to the modem pool for
internal MIT calls.  Useful for testing things like the UUCP dialup line
on bloom-beacon :-)

John

From jtkohl@Athena.MIT.EDU Sun Jul 18 02:35:53 1993
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 22:42:40 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: warlord@Athena.MIT.EDU, usenet@charon.MIT.EDU
Subject: Bloom-beacon uucp and uucp/sendmail notes (archive this)
X-Us-Snail: Parlmont Park Apt. 111, N. Billerica, MA  01862

*** notes items needing attention.

UUCP config files live in /afs/sipb/project/news/src/taylor-uucp/configs/*
Feel free to add comments, especially on things like setting up new UUCP
feeds.

/var/uucp/* on beacon is where the software is installed.  Logging goes
to /var/adm/uucp/{Log,Stats}.  *** Both of those need regular pruning (AND
AREN'T getting it now) *** Spool directories are in /var/spool/uucp/*

*** .../news/src/maps/beacon-map should be updated.  The Makefile there has
comments about the fake map entry (temporarily in place until we get our
updated map entry back with the centrally-posted UUCP maps).  We should
ask anybody listing bloom-beacon as a UUCP "neighbors" to update their
map entries as well to reflect the new state of affairs.  The fabricated
map is specially designed to forward UUCP mail through a limited set of
local internet-connected UUCP/SMTP gateways, such as spdcc.com,
world.std.com, etc.  They're defined specially in the bloom-beacon
sendmail.cf file (which sources live in beacon-src/sendmail/cf,
currently under the name "poop.mc" and what it includes)

Neither kolvir nor orchard are in the current UUCP maps.
Kolvir.blrc.ma.us should NOT be entered, as there's a UUCP-only host
named kolvir somewhere out in Oregon.

All of my understanding of UUCP map format/etc stuff I got from reading
the README file /var/paths/maps/comp.mail.maps/README [which includes
the address to which we should send the update].

To test UUCP path alias routing, do something like this:
bloom-beacon# /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 0 foo@eplunix.uucp
 [spits out gunk, last line of which is:]
rewrite: ruleset  0 returns: "^V" "tcp" "^W" "spdcc" "." "com" "^X" "eplunix" "!" "foo" "@" "spdcc" "." "com"
>

meaning stuff sent there is forwarded by a TCP connection to spdcc.com.

.../news/src/uuhosts:  a collection of program/scripts/etc which
massages/displays UUCP map information.
.../news/src/pathalias: the program which actually generates the DBM
path database

/var/paths/* on beacon has the installed/running copies of the map frobbery.