Updating /etc/uucp/Systems for PPP

The /etc/uucp/Systems file contains entries for every machine to which the local host can dial out. Information in an entry might include the remote host's phone number, the line speed, and so on. Here is an example that host nomadb in Figure 23-1 might have for its dial-in server:

nubian-ppp  Any ACUEC 38400 5551212 "" P_ZERO "" 
\r\n\c login:-\r\n\c-login:-\r\n\c-login:-
EOT-login: bnomad password: Secret-Password

The first field gives the server's host name, nubian-ppp, a value used by the asppp.cf file keyword peer_system_name. ACUEC and 38400 refer to the device and speed, and are used to select an entry from the /etc/uucp/Devices file. The remaining information includes the phone number of the machine that nomadb is to dial in to, the login name that nomadb is using to log in, and so on. "UUCP /etc/uucp/Systems File" fully defines the parameters you need to supply to the Systems file.

On each remote host in your configuration, you must add an entry for its dial-in server. You can have additional entries in the /etc/uucp/Systems file for other machines to which the host can dial out for UUCP communications and for other PPP dial-in servers.

If the dial-in server also directly dials out to remote hosts, you must add entries to its Systems file describing each of these remote hosts.