On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:36:30PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote > Ok lists, I desperatly need your help. > > I have been tasked with moving the company's email from a modem-based uucp > to a tcp/ip based uucp. We will make the firewall our mx, and I have > sendmail installed on it. > > uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running > sco's honeydanber uucp) and scorch (a linux firewall, taylor uucp, sendmail > 8.9.3, mostly a hand-rolled machine from before I met debian). > > This error message from scorch's logs is the one causing the trouble: > uuxqt speedy mmdf (2000-01-13 16:25:00.10 21228) ERROR: Not permitted to > execute rmail > > Here is the entry for speedy in my /etc/uucp/sys file: > system speedy > time Any > address 192.168.0.5 > port TCP > chat ogin uuscorch ord big_secret > commands rmail,uux >
rmail has to be accessible using the 'command-path' that applies to speedy. What do you get if you type # which rmail If it's somewhere unusual, try adding a line like command-path /usr/bin /usr/sbin /path/to/rmail to speedy's 'sys' entry. Good luck, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
