System Administration Guide, Volume 3

Other Basic UUCP Configuration Files

The files in this section can be used in addition to the Systems, Devices, and Dialers file when doing basic UUCP configuration.

UUCP /etc/uucp/Dialcodes File

The /etc/uucp/Dialcodes file enables you to define dial-code abbreviations that can be used in the Phone field in the /etc/uucp/Systems file. You can use the Dialcodes files to provide additional information about a basic phone number that is used by several systems at the same site.

Each entry has the format:

abbreviation dial-sequence

where abbreviation represents the abbreviation used in the Phone field of the Systems file and dial-sequence represents the dial sequence passed to the dialer when that particular Systems file entry is accessed. The following table shows the correspondences between the two files.

Table 27-6 Correspondences Between Dialcodes and Systems Files

 

Field Names 

 

 

 

 

 

Dialcodes 

Abbreviation

Dial-Sequence 

 

 

 

 

Systems 

System-Name 

Time 

Type 

Speed 

Phone

Chat-Script 

The following table contains sample entries in a Dialcodes file.

Table 27-7 Entries in the Dialcodes File

Abbreviation 

Dial-sequence 

NY

1=212

jt

9+847

In the first row, NY is the abbreviation to appear in the Phone field of the Systems file. For example, the Systems file might have the entry:

NY5551212

When uucico reads NY in the Systems file, it searches the Dialcodes file for NY and obtains the dialing sequence 1=212. This is the dialing sequence needed for any phone call to New York City. It includes the number 1, an equal sign (=) meaning pause and wait for a secondary dial tone, and the area code 212. uucico sends this information to the dialer, then returns to the Systems file for the remainder of the phone number, 5551212.

The entry jt 9=847- would work with a Phone field in the Systems file such as jt7867. When uucico reads the entry containing jt7867 in the Systems file, it sends the sequence 9=847-7867 to the dialer, if the token in the dialer-token pair is \T.

UUCP /etc/uucp/Sysfiles File

The /etc/uucp/Sysfiles file lets you assign different files to be used by uucp and cu as Systems, Devices, and Dialers files. (For more information on cu, see the cu(1C) man page.) You might want to use Sysfiles for:

The format of the Sysfiles file is:


service=w systems=x:x dialers=y:y devices=z:z 

w represents uucico, cu, or both separated by a colon. x represents one or more files to be used as the Systems file, with each file name separated by a colon and read in the order presented. y represents one or more files to be used as the Dialers file. z is one or more files to be used as the Devices file.

Each file name is assumed to be relative to the /etc/uucp directory, unless a full path is given.

The following sample, /etc/uucp/Sysfiles defines a local Systems file (Local_Systems) in addition to the standard /etc/uucp/Systems file:


service=uucico:cu systems=Systems :Local_Systems 

When this entry is in /etc/uucp/Sysfiles, both uucico and cu first check in the standard /etc/uucp/Systems. If the system they are trying to call doesn't have an entry in that file, or if the entries in the file fail, then they look in /etc/uucp/Local_Systems.

Given the previous entry, cu and uucico share the Dialers and Devices files.

When different Systems files are defined for uucico and cu services, your machine stores two different lists of Systems. You can print the uucico list using the uuname command or the cu list using the uuname -C command. Another example of the file, where the alternate files are consulted first and the default files are consulted in case of need is:


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

UUCP /etc/uucp/Sysname File

Every machine that uses UUCP must have an identifying name, often referred to as the node name. This is the name that appears in the remote machine's /etc/uucp/Systems file, along with the chat-script and other identifying information. Normally, UUCP uses the same node name as is returned by the uname -n command, which is also used by TCP/IP.

You can specify a UUCP node name independent of the TCP/IP host name by creating the /etc/uucp/Sysname file. The file has a one-line entry containing the UUCP node name for your system.