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    From Dennis Katsonis@3:633/384 to All on Mon Apr 28 11:05:00 2025
    Has anyone had any experience getting UUCP to work in Debian?

    I've been playing around with it, and I *think* I've gotten one machine to authenticate and connect, but after login, nothing happens. UUCP seems to hang after sending username and password.

    I can post details, but if no one here us familiar, then probably not worth asking.

    This is UUCP over TCP on a LAN.


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  • From Oleg Artemjev@2:6078/80.1354 to Dennis Katsonis on Mon Apr 28 13:09:34 2025
    Hello, Dennis!

    28  ¯à 25 11:05, Dennis Katsonis -> All:
    Has anyone had any experience getting UUCP to work in Debian?
    I've been playing around with it, and I *think* I've gotten one
    machine to authenticate and connect, but after login, nothing happens. UUCP seems to hang after sending username and password.
    I can post details, but if no one here us familiar, then probably not worth asking.
    This is UUCP over TCP on a LAN.

    I'm not familiar with UUCP at all, but when you will get it working - please post something about it - I like to learn things by reading HOWTOS.:)

    Sorry that I didn't help & good luck to find someone to (if LLMs AI does not help either)!


    With best regards, Oleg.

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  • From Dennis Katsonis@3:633/384 to Oleg Artemjev on Tue Apr 29 07:58:00 2025
    Oleg Artemjev wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

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    Hello, Dennis!

    28  ¯a 25 11:05, Dennis Katsonis -> All:
    Has anyone had any experience getting UUCP to work in Debian?
    I've been playing around with it, and I *think* I've gotten one
    machine to authenticate and connect, but after login, nothing happens. UUCP seems to hang after sending username and password.
    I can post details, but if no one here us familiar, then probably not worth asking.
    This is UUCP over TCP on a LAN.

    I'm not familiar with UUCP at all, but when you will get it working - please post something about it - I like to learn things by reading HOWTOS.:)

    Sorry that I didn't help & good luck to find someone to (if LLMs AI
    does not help either)!

    I found the problem. I won't go into detail as I'm still not 100% where it went
    wrong, but I think the problem may have been with the way that Debian packed it.

    All I did, was change the "uucp@.service" file to start a different service
    .

    Instead of running /usr/sbin/in.uucpd, I changed it to run
    /usr/sbin/uncico -l. That fixed my problem, which was that nothing was logging in right.

    I'll have to look into it a bit more to see WHY the original life by Debian didn't work, as that was supposed to use PAM for Authentication. When I know a bit more, I might submit a bug report and blog about it.



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