From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Remote Login using UUCP 1.16d
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:31:05 GMT
Organization: Raven Enterprises -- Piscataway, NJ USA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <715896507@wolfhh.hanse.de> chris@wolfhh.hanse.de (Christian Wolf) writes:
> Hi!
>
> ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn) writes:
>
> >Has anyone set up their uucp to allow remote login? I have a
> >uucp connection to work and would love to be able to dial up
> >my amiga, log on to it and do some minimal work (usually, just
> >move around and find a file to uucp to myself at work). I
> >know I can request a file via uucp, but sometimes its not in
> >a non-protected directory, or I just don't remember the name
> >or the directory its in.
>
> >I read that someone had problems where the getty got hung up
> >after they logged off. Is anyone out there using this new
> >feature (to 1.16)?
>
> I don't use 1.16 with remote login. The problem (at least my
> one) is, that you lock your machine, if your CLI hangs (e.g.
> e Requester "Insert Volume xyz:" apears). To avoid this I have
> written a programm which connects the serial.device via a
> FIFO: with a CLI. If you hang up the line, the FIFO: will be
> closed on the serial side. The CLI may remain open, but who
> cares. You can login again (open a new CLI) and go on.

I strongly suggest that anyone interested in allowing remote access to
thier AmigaUUCP systems pickup AXsh and use that.  I grabbed it off of
an FTP site and it is just fantastic!  Although there are alot of
commands that could be added to the system and a menued user shell would
be nice, this puppy is the best thing for remote logins since sliced
bread.

I will be sending in my Registration immediately and monies if that is
possible.  Does anyone know where the specs for adding binaries to this
shell system are and any more info than what comes in the
AXshDemo125.lha package?  I would love to get this thing going in a
serious way.

Also, if anyone has ANY config info for using other news readers and
setting up a mailer that will work with AmigaUUCP, please let me know as
I would be very interested.  I have TNews but have yet to play around
with that.  It will work remotely, right?

Also, I pointed my news directory in the AXsh rc file for news to
UULIB:Newsgroups.  Now each time a person enters rn, the program adds a
ton of newsgroups and then deletes the non-existant ones.  What is the
fix for this behaviour?  I would rather it just read the users resource
file for news and that's that.  I don't currently run CNews so my
newsgroups file has alot of groups that probably don't exist in it.
Anything short of editing the file would work for me.

If anyone wants AXshDemo125.lha they can request it from my system via
BMS or they can dial directly, check out the remote shell and download
it using the File Transfer portion of AXsh (FFE).  My system is up all
the time and the number is 908/560-1714 runing a Hayes Ultra 144
V.32bis/V.42bis high-speed modem.

Now all I need is a multi-port serial board, a few more modems and a few
gigs of storage and all would be fine..well, SLIP and NNTP would be nice
also. <grin>

--
 Bob Lindabury

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