Sysfiles(F)

Format

Description

You can use different Systems files so that requests for login services can be made to other addresses than UUCP services.

With different Dialers files you can use different handshaking for cu and uucp. Multiple Systems, Dialers, and Devices files are useful if any one file becomes too large.

An active Sysfiles file is not included in the distribution. Instead a Sysfiles.eg file is included, which contains comments and commented examples of how such a file can be used. This is done because UUCP runs faster if it does not have to read this file.

Each entry in Sysfiles must include a service statement which defines the files to be assigned for a given service. service takes as its argument one of:

uucico

assign files to be used by uucico

cu

assign files to be used by cu

uucico:cu

assign files to be used by both cu and uucico

The following filetypes may be set:

devices

assign a list of Devices files

dialers

assign a list of Dialers files

systems

assign a list of Systems files

devices, dialers, and systems take a list of alternative files to be searched as their argument list. Each file in the list is separated from the next by a colon (:). No spaces are allowed in the list. The files should appear in the order that they are to be searched when an entry is being sought. The pathname of each file is assumed to be given relative to the /usr/lib/uucp directory, unless a full path is given. A backslash-carriage return (\<Return>) can be used to continue an entry onto the next line.

When different Systems files are defined for uucico and cu services, your machine will store two different lists of Systems. You can print the uucico list using the uuname command or the cu list using the uuname -c command.

Examples

   service=uucico:cu  systems=Systems:Local_Systems

Different Systems and Dialers files may be used to separate uucico and cu-specific information. Common information is retained in the Systems and Dialers files.

service=uucico  systems=Systems.cico:Systems \
                dialers=Dialers.cico:Dialers
service=cu      systems=Systems.cu:Systems \
                dialers=Dialers.cu:Dialers

service=uucico  systems=Systems.local:Systems.company:Systems
service=cu      systems=Systems.local:Systems.company:Systems

Files

/usr/lib/uucp/Sysfiles

full pathname of Sysfiles

See also