Sujet : Re: how to connect UUCP nodes in the 21st century?
De : eternal (at) *nospam* notreally.com (Juancho)
Groupes : comp.mail.uucpDate : 11. Feb 2025, 18:45:25
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On 2025-02-11, Dan Cross <
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
In article <173921308610.26577.4951890872054731139@media.vsta.org>,
Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> wrote:
eternal@notreally.com (Juancho) writes:
I have used UUCP over SSH over IP a few times in the past. SSH is used
as the transport for the UUCP character stream via STDIN & STDOUT. It
doesn't involve any port forwarding.
What is the point of this? I mean, UUCP is/was used primarily for remote
login and to transfer files, which both are native functionalities of SSH.
>
UUCP was primarily a store-and-forward, source routed file transfer
mechanism. Some files were metadata, saying what should be done with
companion files--thus, email. Drawing a blank on remote login?
>
Perhaps Juancho meant remote command execution,
a la uux?
I was thinking about the "ct" and "cu" commands of the uucp suite.
-- EOT
how to connect UUCP nodes in the 21st century?
Re: how to connect UUCP nodes in the 21st century?
