migrating from redhat / fedora / mandrake to suse 9.1 or 9.2
Greetings, I have a huge problem, my new customer has nearly 500 sites that are all run via dial-up, The problem is that all the sites are running different versions of linux, I would like to standardise the whole network on suse 9.1 or 9.2. The problem is that we still have a sco server, The current setup is running via uucp, uucico and cu I migrated the scripts from the redhat boc to suse box and configured and install everything as it was on the other flavours, but when running cu it won't dial-up, could anyone point me to some sensible docs for uucp uucico an cu in suse 9.1? TIA -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
On Sunday 29 May 2005 9:41 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a huge problem, my new customer has nearly 500 sites that are all run via dial-up, The problem is that all the sites are running different versions of linux, I would like to standardise the whole network on suse 9.1 or 9.2.
The problem is that we still have a sco server,
The current setup is running via uucp, uucico and cu
I migrated the scripts from the redhat boc to suse box and configured and install everything as it was on the other flavours, but when running cu it won't dial-up,
could anyone point me to some sensible docs for uucp uucico an cu in suse 9.1?
SuSE uses Taylor UUCP, any of the many howtos on Taylor should apply. What exactly do you mean when you say 'running cu it won't dial-up'? What happens? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
On Monday 30 May 2005 07:14, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 29 May 2005 9:41 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a huge problem, my new customer has nearly 500 sites that are all run via dial-up, The problem is that all the sites are running different versions of linux, I would like to standardise the whole network on suse 9.1 or 9.2.
The problem is that we still have a sco server,
The current setup is running via uucp, uucico and cu
I migrated the scripts from the redhat boc to suse box and configured and install everything as it was on the other flavours, but when running cu it won't dial-up,
could anyone point me to some sensible docs for uucp uucico an cu in suse 9.1?
SuSE uses Taylor UUCP, any of the many howtos on Taylor should apply. What exactly do you mean when you say 'running cu it won't dial-up'? What happens?
Scott
-- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
You must understand that I have never been exposed to this before!. On the current system we run this command to get a login prompt on the remote system via dial-up, cu -x9 natgnet natgnet (server) is set in our /etc/uucp/oldconfig/Systems file # cat Systems natgnet any ACU 38400 0134453212 ogin: \c\d "" uucp assword: #### alternatively from the SCO-UNIX box we can do cu -x9 sitename and it dials into the site giving a login prompt. I figured if I could just get cu to work then uucico would also work. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanx -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:48 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
You must understand that I have never been exposed to this before!.
On the current system we run this command to get a login prompt on the remote system via dial-up,
cu -x9 natgnet
natgnet (server) is set in our /etc/uucp/oldconfig/Systems file
# cat Systems natgnet any ACU 38400 0134453212 ogin: \c\d "" uucp assword: ####
alternatively from the SCO-UNIX box we can do cu -x9 sitename
and it dials into the site giving a login prompt.
I figured if I could just get cu to work then uucico would also work.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
Have you looked at using seyon at all. The configuration is much more straight forward and runs as a gui. Just an idea. After installing the uucp package I see the docs are -very- sparse with -no- real world examples. Even default config files are not in place with -no- hint on what goes where. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:48 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
You must understand that I have never been exposed to this before!.
On the current system we run this command to get a login prompt on the remote system via dial-up,
cu -x9 natgnet
natgnet (server) is set in our /etc/uucp/oldconfig/Systems file
# cat Systems natgnet any ACU 38400 0134453212 ogin: \c\d "" uucp assword: ####
alternatively from the SCO-UNIX box we can do cu -x9 sitename
and it dials into the site giving a login prompt.
I figured if I could just get cu to work then uucico would also work.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
Have you looked at using seyon at all. The configuration is much more straight forward and runs as a gui. Just an idea.
After installing the uucp package I see the docs are -very- sparse with -no- real world examples. Even default config files are not in place with -no- hint on what goes where.
Probably because it's not much used these days, use of uucp was very common in the early days of Linux. I last tried seyon several years ago and couldn't get it going, so I went for kermit and xminicom. I always used kermit for install/upgrade of Sun boxes where there was no network connection available, i just made up a say script which automated the connection commands, a colleague favoured xminicom and there is also gtkterm. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:27 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
Have you looked at using seyon at all. The configuration is much > > more straight forward and runs as a gui. Just an idea.
After installing the uucp package I see the docs are -very- sparse > with -no- real world examples. Even default config files are not in > place with -no- hint on what goes where.
Probably because it's not much used these days, use of uucp was very common in the early days of Linux. I last tried seyon several years ago and couldn't get it going,
Perhaps if the need arises again you should try it. Programs get better with age and what didn't work last year may work better then expected today. I have used it in the past year with great success.
so I went for kermit and xminicom. I always used kermit for install/upgrade of Sun boxes where there was no network connection available, i just made up a say script which automated the connection commands, a colleague favoured xminicom and there is also gtkterm. Regards Sid.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Sunday 29 May 2005 11:48 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
You must understand that I have never been exposed to this before!.
On the current system we run this command to get a login prompt on the remote system via dial-up,
cu -x9 natgnet
And what happens when you do so, there must be some type of error message, what is it?
natgnet (server) is set in our /etc/uucp/oldconfig/Systems file
Are you certain that 'oldconfig' is the correct path for the Systems file?
# cat Systems natgnet any ACU 38400 0134453212 ogin: \c\d "" uucp assword: ####
alternatively from the SCO-UNIX box we can do cu -x9 sitename
and it dials into the site giving a login prompt.
I figured if I could just get cu to work then uucico would also work.
Make sure you've copied your config files to the correct locations. The uucp stuff is ancient, but it was rock solid so I suspect you do not have the right config files in the right locations. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
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