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- QUICKSETUP.DOC
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- Matthew Dillon
- 891 Regal Rd.
- Berkeley, Ca. 94708
- USA
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- uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
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- QUICKLY GETTING UUCP UP AND RUNNING
-
- NOTE NOTE: Network distributions do not include system executables, be
- sure that your uucp boot disk has the programs specified in the
- .DistFiles file in the SYSTEM, LIBS, L, and DEVS directories.
-
- THE FIRST FLOPPY IN THE DISTRIBUTION IS BOOTABLE and sets up a dummy
- system that accepts calls for Login = uucp and Password = uupc and
- nodes named uucp, test1, or test2. To quickly test UUCP with a friend
- running the same distribution follow the directions immediately below.
- Note that these directions exist so you can quickly test UUCP with a
- copy of the boot floppy. Once you know it works you MUST follow
- the procedure described in SlowSetup.DOC to create a real UUCP node.
-
- Phrases in parenthesis refer to what the second person should do.
- Example, 1> dmail root@test2 (root@test1) asks person #1 to
- 'dmail root@test2' and person #2 to 'dmail root@test1'
-
- Person #1 (Person #2)
-
- (1) Make a copy of both distribution diskettes and then put the
- originals away somewhere. With a two floppy system you may
- simply use DiskCopy. With a one floppy system you will need
- to copy things a directory at a time to your ram: disk and
- back (be very sure that you make an exact duplicate to prevent
- stupid mistakes). If you are not using DiskCopy be sure to
- run the Install program on the copy to make it bootable.
-
- The test procedure described below requires only a bootable
- copy of the FIRST distribution diskette.
-
- You may want to copy your favorite editor to this floppy. Remember
- that enough room must remain for queue and mail files, at least for
- initial testing.
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- You may also want to copy a terminal program to this floppy for
- troubleshooting.
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- The DME editor already exists on this disk.
-
- (2) Reboot your computer with the first distribution diskette.
-
- The boot sequence will leave two programs running in the
- background: DCron, and Getty. Getty sits on the serial port
- waiting for connections while DCron is a timekeeping program
- which runs other programs at certain times based on a crontab
- file in S:.
-
- (3) In the "lib/Config" file modify the NodeName entry to test1 (test2).
-
- (4) In the "lib/L.Sys" file modify the telephone number to that
- of Person #1 (Person #2)
-
- (5) Each of you email the other, 1> dmail root@test2 (root@test1)
- (Note that you are emailing to the OTHER guy's machine).
-
- Leave a blank line after the headers and write a small note to
- the other person. Shift-DEL deletes a line while F10 sends the
- message. BTW, DMail runs the DME editor and this is what you
- are editing your email in. You might want to refer to various
- documentation in the MAN directory of the SECOND distribution
- diskette.
-
- (6) Check that the system has queued the files for transfer,
-
- 1> dir uuspool:
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- There should be one C. control file and two D. data files. Each
- mail item queues three files so if you had, for example, sent
- two messages, there would be 6 files in UUSPOOL:
-
-
- (7) This assumes both of you have relatively standard modems
- connected to your systems. If you do not have modems capable
- of a minimal AT instruction set you may have problems.
-
- **NOTE** Most modems have dip-switch selectable Ignore-DTR.
- This should be disabled. That is, dropping DTR should disconnect
- any connection.
-
- THE MODEM MUST SUPPORT CARRIER DETECT. Be sure that your
- serial cable passes carrier detect.
-
- Current parameters set in lib/L.sys and s:startup-sequence assume
- at least a 1200 baud modem.
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- One of you should call the other. For example, person #1 may
- call person #2 with the command "1> uucico -stest2", where 1>
- is the CLI prompt, and vise versa for person #2 "1> uucico -stest1".
-
- UUCico will send the appropriate commands to your modem to call
- the other person using touch tone (ATDT) codes. Refer to
- man/uucico on the second distribution disk for other options.
-
- UUCico will then connect to the other system. The Getty,
- run in the background on both systems, will accept the call
- and handle the login then run uucico on the second machine
- automatically. The two uucico's should then transfer mail.
- This should take maybe a minute.
-
- UUCico will then hangup, do further processing, then run
- another program in the background that deals with the queue
- files that were transfered by the remote machine (the same
- thing happens on the remote machine to deal with the queue
- files we transfered it). After all disk activity finishes
- you each should have a message in your respective UUMAIL:
- directories in a file called 'root'.
-
- 1> Dir uumail:
- 1> Type uumail:Root
-
- (8) IF MAIL DID NOT GET TRANSFERED, and most likely you will have
- noticed UUCico giving up early, then something went wrong
- somewhere.
-
- First determine on whos computer the problem is. One of you
- use your term program to call the other person's computer.
- His Getty should answer with a stupid header line and a
- Login: prompt. You should be able to login as 'test1' or
- 'test2', password of 'uupc', and his computer ought to then
- run UUCico (you will see the characters 'Shere' appear after
- a short while and the system will appear to hang). UUCico
- is a transfer protocol.
-
- Each of you follow the above sequence on the other's computer.
- This verifies that the Getty program is working properly.
-
- **NOTE**, some terminal programs will not work with Getty
- running in the background, you may have to BREAK the Getty
- program which in an unaltered startup-sequence will be
- CLI process #2. DCron is CLI process #3.
-
- Refer to Problems.DOC for more information. Most problems at
- this point will be due to either screwing around with files
- beyond what I've asked you to modify or incorrectly configured
- or incompatible modems.
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- Please read SlowSetup.DOC for instructions on setting your
- system up for real.
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