Managing UUCP and Usenet

by Tim O'Reilly, Grace Todino-Gonguet, Grace Todino

For all its widespread use, UUCP is one of the most difficult UNIX utilities to master. Poor documentation, cryptic messages, and differences between various implementations make setting up UUCP links a nightmare for many a system administrator.This handbook is meant for system administrators who want to install and manage the UUCP and Usenet software. It covers HoneyDanBer UUCP as well as standard Version 2 UUCP, with special notes on Xenix. As one reader noted over the Net, "Don't even TRY to install UUCP without it!"Topics covered in Managing UUCP The tenth edition of this classic work has been revised and expanded to include descriptions

Genres: Technical

368 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1990

Reviews

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Save your Dixie cups. The south will rise again.

If you have not noticed, you can no longer push start a car. And no one uses uucp. But it is still there and accessible. It would behoove you to be aware of its presence and how it works. Hey, there is even a second on using, dare I say “MODEM’s”. There is a good explanation of ttys that some people could use today. The second on xenix makes this a coffee table book.

[Akira · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of my first UNIX books, back in the time when Usenet, tin and elm where your poison of choice.