.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" .\" @(#)4.t 2.3 (2.11BSD GTE) 1996/11/27 .\" .de IR \fI\\$1\fP\|\\$2 .. .ds LH "Installing/Operating \*(2B .nr H1 4 .nr H2 0 .ds CF \*(DY .ds RH "System setup .bp .LG .B .ce 4. SYSTEM SETUP .sp 2 .R .NL .PP This section describes procedures used to set up a PDP-11 UNIX system. These procedures are used when a system is first installed or when the system configuration changes. Procedures for normal system operation are described in the next section. .NH 2 Creating a UNIX boot .PP \fI/boot\fP uses the device information passed to it from the bootstrap in determining the device, unit and file to load. If an autoreboot is being done the kernel will have passed the device information to the bootstrap as well as setting the autoreboot flag. .PP \fI/boot\fP does not require recompilation to adapt to a new autoreboot device. .NH 2 Kernel configuration .PP This section briefly describes the layout of the kernel code and how files for devices are made. .NH 3 Kernel organization .PP As distributed, the kernel source is in a separate tar image. The source may be physically located anywhere within any file system so long as a symbolic link to the location is created for the file /sys (many files in /usr/include are normally symbolic links relative to /sys). In further discussions of the system source all path names will be given relative to /sys. .PP The directory /sys/sys contains the mainline machine independent operating system code. Files within this directory are conventionally named with the following prefixes: .DS .TS lw(1.0i) l. init_ system initialization kern_ kernel (authentication, process management, etc.) quota_ kernel portion of disk quota system subr_ misc. subroutines used throughout the kernel sys_ system calls and the like tty_ terminal handling ufs_ file system uipc_ interprocess communication vm_ memory management .TE .DE .PP The remaining directories are organized as follows: .DS .TS lw(1.0i) l. /sys/h machine independent include files /sys/conf site configuration files and basic templates /sys/net network independent, but network related code /sys/netinet DARPA Internet code /sys/netimp IMP support code /sys/netns Xerox NS support code /sys/pdp PDP-11 specific mainline code /sys/pdpif PDP-11 network interface code /sys/pdpmba PDP-11 MASSBUS device drivers and related code /sys/pdpuba PDP-11 UNIBUS device drivers and related code .TE .DE .PP Many of these directories are referenced through /usr/include with symbolic links. For example, /usr/include/sys is a symbolic link to /sys/h. The system code, as distributed, is mostly independent of the include files in /usr/include. Unfortunately not all references to /usr/include have been eradicated, so compiling the system requires the /usr file system to be mounted. .NH 3 Devices and device drivers .PP Devices supported by UNIX are implemented in the kernel by drivers whose source is kept in /sys/pdp, /sys/pdpuba, or /sys/pdpmba. These drivers are loaded into the system when included in a cpu specific configuration file kept in the conf directory. Devices are accessed through special files in the file system, made by the .IR mknod (8) program and normally kept in the /dev directory. For all the devices supported by the distribution system, the files in /dev are created by the /dev/MAKEDEV shell script. .PP Determine the set of devices that you have and create a new /dev directory by running the MAKEDEV script. First create a new directory /newdev, copy MAKEDEV into it, edit the file MAKEDEV.local to provide an entry for local needs, and run it to generate a /newdev directory. For instance, if your machine has a single DZ11, a single DH11, an RM03 disk, an EMULEX UNIBUS SMD disk controller, an AMPEX 9300 disk, and a TE16 tape drive you would do: .DS \fB#\fP cd / \fB#\fP mkdir newdev \fB#\fP cp dev/MAKEDEV newdev/MAKEDEV \fB#\fP cd newdev \fB#\fP MAKEDEV dz0 dh0 xp0 xp1 ht0 std LOCAL .DE Note the ``std'' argument causes standard devices such as \fI/dev/console\fP, the machine console, \fI/dev/null\fP, \fI/dev/tty\fP, \fI/dev/klog\fP, etc. to be created. .PP You can then do .DS \fB#\fP cd / \fB#\fP mv dev olddev ; mv newdev dev \fB#\fP sync .DE to install the new device directory.\(ua .FS .IP \(ua You must reboot your system before you can remove the /olddev directory. .FE As distributed almost all of the device nodes are already present and you may wish to remove unused entries from /dev to speed up scanning of the directory. The terminal nodes are almost certainly incorrect for your site and will need to be deleted and recreated. Directly connected terminals should have the softcarrier bit on in their minor device numbers. Since MAKEDEV by default creates terminal (dh, dz, etc) nodes with the softcarrier bit off you will have to delete those nodes and recreate those terminal nodes which are directly connected: .DS \fB#\fP cd /dev \fB#\fP rm ttyh0 \fB#\fP mknod ttyh0 c 3 128 .DE .NH 3 Building new system images .PP The kernel configuration of each UNIX system is described by a single configuration file, stored in the \fI/sys/conf\fP directory. The format of this file is very simple consisting of lines starting with an \fIidentifier\fP followed by a \fIvalue\fP. Blank lines and anything past a ``#'' (including the #) are comments. This file is processed by the shell script \fIconfig\fP in the same directory. The manual pages in section 4 of the UNIX manual specify the configuration lines necessary for various devices. A comprehensive list of system options with descriptions of their meanings and effects can be found in appendix A. .PP The configuration file \fIGENERIC\fP in the conf directory was used to build the generic distribution kernel. To build a local configuration file, copy GENERIC to a new file \fISYSTEM\fP, edit \fISYSTEM\fP for your local system configuration, and then type "./config \fISYSTEM\fP". This will create the directory \fI../SYSTEM\fP and copy specially edited files into based on the definitions in \fISYSTEM\fP. Change directory into the new system directory and type "make all".\(ua, .FS .IP \(ua note that non-separate systems are not currently supported .FE .DS \fB#\fP cp GENERIC \fISYSTEM\fP \fB#\fP TERM=\fIterminal_type\fP; export TERM \fB#\fP vi \fISYSTEM\fP \fB#\fP ./config \fISYSTEM\fP \fB#\fP cd ../\fISYSTEM\fP \fB#\fP make .DE .PP Note that the overlay scheme in the Makefile copied into the new system directory may fail because either the \fIbase segment\fP is too small, too large or one or more \fIoverlay segments\fP are too large. If this happens the system objects will have to be re-arranged in the \fIbase\fP and \fIoverlay\fP segments. The comments in the Makefile should make it fairly clear what the restrictions on object placement are in the system. .PP The configured system image ``unix''\(dd .FS .IP \(dd on networked systems there are two images \fIunix\fP, and \fInetnix\fP. .FE should be copied to the root, and then booted to try it out. It is best to save the old kernel to a known name so as not to destroy the working system until you're sure the new one does work. It is an \fBbetter\fP idea to have a non network kernel (/emergencyunix) always kept on the system: .DS \fB#\fP cp /unix /oldunix \fB#\fP make install \fB#\fP sync .DE To boot the new version of the system you should follow the bootstrap procedures outlined in section titled ``\fBBootstrap and shutdown procedures\fP'' A systematic scheme for numbering and saving old versions of the system may be useful. .NH 2 Disk configuration .PP This section describes how to layout file systems to make use of the available space and to balance disk load for better system performance. .NH 3 Disk naming and divisions .PP Each physical disk drive can be divided into up to 8 partitions; UNIX typically uses only 3 or 4 partitions. For instance, on an RP06 the first partition, xp0a, is used for a root file system, a backup thereof, or a small file system like, /tmp; the second partition, xp0b, is used for swapping or a small file system; and a combination of the remaining partitions (xp0d, xp0e, xp0f, xp0g, xp0h) would hold user file systems. .sp .RS .PP \fBWarning:\fP for disks on which DEC standard 144 bad sector forwarding is supported, the last track and up to 126 preceding sectors contain replacement sectors and bad sector lists. Disk-to-disk copies should be careful to avoid overwriting this information. See \fIbad144\fP\|(8). Bad sector forwarding is optional in the \fBhk\fP and \fBxp\fP drivers. The partition sizes listed in \fI/etc/disktab\fP that \fInewfs\fP\|(8) uses automatically reserve the maximum amount of room that may be used by bad block forwarding on a disk. .PP Note also that bad144 style bad block forwarding \fIcan not\fP be used with SI controllers on the xp driver as the controllers use their own internal scheme for bad block forwarding, and you can in fact make your disks unusable on the SI controllers if you write anything in the last five cylinders. The partition sizes in \fI/etc/disktab\fP also handle this constraint automatically. .PP The generic distribution kernel does not do bad block forwarding. There is unfortunately no way to run bad144 style bad block forwarding on some of your disks, but not others. As a final bug, the hk and xp drivers do not reread the bad sector forwarding information when disk packs are changed and so will erroneously use bad block forwarding information from the wrong packs! .RE .sp .PP The space available on a disk varies, not surprisingly, per device. Disklabels make a table giving sizes meaningless since there are no predefined partition sizes embedded in the kernel any longer. The root filesystem (\fBa\fP) must be at least 4Mb, preferably 6 to 7Mb if possible. The swap area (almost always the \fBb\fP partition) should be about 3Mb or so. If your system has a small amount (less than 2Mb) of memory you will need more swap space, perhaps 4 or 5Mb. It is a rare case where more than 5 or 6Mb of swap space is required. The system will run out of other resources by the time enough activity is generated to need that much swap space. .PP The system (boot) disk has a swapping area and a root file system. Other drives may use those partitions for data. \fBRemember:\fP the \fBa\fP partition must start at sector 0 or \fIdisklabel\fP\|(8) or else the kernel will not be able to read/write the label. .PP The distributed system binaries occupy about 34 Megabytes while the major sources occupy another 36 Megabytes. Adding in the miscellaneous sources, a few locate works of art bring the total for a complete system to about 90 Megabytes. This overflows RK07, RL02 and RM03 systems, but fits easily on most other hardware configurations. \*(2B is quite happy on RD54 or larger. Simply fitting the distribution isn't enough, there must still be space left for user files, objects when compiling programs, spooling directories, usw. .PP Be aware that the disks have their sizes measured in disk sectors (512 bytes), while the UNIX file system blocks are 1024 bytes each. Thus if a disk partition has 10000 sectors (disk blocks), it will have only 5000 UNIX file system blocks, and you \fImust\fP divide by 2 to use 5000 when specifying the size to the \fImkfs\fP command for instance. The \fInewfs\fP\|(8) program performs this calculation automatically. You should \fBnever\fP need to run \fImkfs\fP manually. All user programs report disk space in kilobytes and, where needed, disk sizes are always specified in units of sectors. The /etc/disktab file used in making file systems specifies disk partition sizes in sectors; the default sector size may be overridden with the ``se'' attribute. \fBNote\fP that the only sector size currently supported is NBPG as defined in \fI/sys/pdp/machparam.h\fP. This restriction is enforced in several places in the disklabeling process as a safeguard against specifying a sector size other than NBPG (512). Any other sector size would produce strange results and almost certainly curdled filesystems. .NH 3 Layout considerations .PP There are several considerations in deciding how to adjust the arrangement of things on your disks. The most important is making sure that there is adequate space for what is required; secondarily, throughput should be maximized. Swap space is an important parameter since it defines the maximum process image load that may be run. If, for instance, your swap area were smaller than the amount of main memory available after the kernel took its share, some of your memory would never be used. .PP Many common system programs (C, the editor, the assembler etc.) create intermediate files in the /tmp directory, so the file system where this is stored also should be made large enough to accommodate most high-water marks; if you have several disks, it makes sense to mount this in a ``root'' (i.e. first partition) file system on another disk. All the programs that create files in /tmp take care to delete them, but are not immune to rare events and can leave dregs. The directory should be examined every so often and the old files deleted. .PP The efficiency with which UNIX is able to use the CPU is often strongly affected by the configuration of disk controllers. For general time-sharing applications, the best strategy is to try to split the most actively-used sections among several disk arms. .PP It is critical for good performance to balance disk load. There are at least five components of the disk load that you can divide between the available disks: .DS 1. The root file system. 2. The /tmp file system. 3. The /usr file system. 4. The user files. 5. The swapping activity. .DE The following possibilities are ones that have been used at times when 2, 3 and 4 disks were available: .TS center doublebox; l | c s s l | lw(5) | lw(5) | lw(5). disks what 2 3 4 _ / 0 0 0 tmp 1 2 3 usr 1 1 1 swapping\(ua 0 2 2 users 0 0+2 0+2 archive x x 3 .TE .FS .IP \(ua Note also, that only a single swapping area is supported. The \fIswapon\fP\|(2) system call and multiple swapping areas have \fBnot\fP been implemented under \*(2B (yet. no real need since enough other resources are exhausted by the time a 4mb 11/73 needs additional swap space). .FE .PP The most important things to consider are to even out the disk load as much as possible, and to do this by decoupling file systems (on separate arms) between which heavy copying occurs. Note that a long term average balanced load is not important; it is much more important to have an instantaneously balanced load when the system is busy. When placing several busy file systems on the same disk, it is helpful to group them together to minimize arm movement, with less active file systems off to the side. .PP Intelligent experimentation with a few file system arrangements can pay off in much improved performance. It is particularly easy to move the root, the /tmp file system and the swapping area. Note, though, that the disks containing the root and swapping area can never be removed while UNIX is running. Place the user files and the /usr directory as space needs dictate and experiment with the other, more easily moved file systems. .NH 3 Implementing a layout .PP To put a chosen disk layout into effect, you should use the .IR newfs (8) command to create each new file system. Each file system must also be added to the file /etc/fstab so that it will be checked and mounted when the system is bootstrapped. .PP As an example, consider a system with RA80's. On the first RA80, ra0, we will put the root file system in ra0a, and the /usr file system in ra0c, which has enough space to hold it and then some. The /tmp directory will be part of the root file system, as no file system will be mounted on /tmp. If we had only one RA80, we would put user files in the ra0c partition with the system source and binaries. .PP If we had a second RA80, we would place \fI/usr\fP in ra1c. We would put user files in ra0c, calling the file system /mnt. We would put swap on \fIra0b\fP. We would keep a backup copy of the root file system in the \fBra1a\fP disk partition and put /tmp on \fIra1b\fP. \fI/etc/fstab\fP would then contain .DS /dev/ra0a:/:rw:1:1 /dev/ra0b::sw:: /dev/ra0c:/mnt:rw:1:2 /dev/ra1b:/tmp:rw:: /dev/ra1c:/usr:rw:1:2 .DE .PP To make the /mnt file system we would do: .DS \fB#\fP cd /dev \fB#\fP MAKEDEV ra1 \fB#\fP newfs ra1c ra80 (information about file system prints out) (to specify an alternate \fIm\fP value: newfs -m # ra1c ra80) (where # is between 1 and 31) \fB#\fP mkdir /mnt \fB#\fP mount /dev/ra1c /mnt .DE .NH 2 Configuring terminals .PP If UNIX is to support simultaneous access from directly-connected terminals other than the console, the file \fI/etc/ttys\fP (\fIttys\fP\|(5)) must be edited. .PP Terminals connected via DZ11 interfaces are conventionally named \fBttyDD\fP where DD is a decimal number, the ``minor device'' number. The lines on dz0 are named /dev/tty00, /dev/tty01, ... /dev/tty07. By convention, all other terminal names are of the form \fBtty\fPCX, where C is an alphabetic character according to the type of terminal multiplexor and its unit number, and X is a digit for the first ten lines on the interface and an increasing lower case letter for the rest of the lines. C is defined for the number of interfaces of each type listed below. Since tty structures are approximately 78 bytes each, it is highly doubtful that more than 3 or 4 terminal interface boards will ever be attached to a PDP-11 (especially in a BA23 cabinet). .DS .TS center box; c c c c c c c c l c n n. Interface Number of lines Number of Type Characters per board Interfaces _ DZ11 see above 8 10 DH11 h-o 16 8 DHU11 S-Z 16 8 pty p-u 16 6 .TE .DE .PP To add a new terminal device, be sure the device is configured into the system and that the special files for the device have been made by /dev/MAKEDEV. Then, enable the appropriate lines of /etc/ttys by setting the ``status'' field to \fBon\fP (or add new lines). Note that lines in \fI/etc/ttys\fP are one-for-one with entries in the file of current users (\fI/var/run/utmp\fP), and therefore it is best to make changes while running in single-user mode and to add all of the entries for a new device at once. .PP The format of the /etc/ttys file is the same in \*(2B as in \*(Ps and 4.3BSD. Each line in the file is broken into four tab separated fields (comments are shown by a `#' character and extend to the end of the line). For each terminal line the four fields are: the device (without a leading /dev), the program /etc/init should startup to service the line (or \fBnone\fP if the line is to be left alone), the terminal type (found in /etc/termcap), and optional status information describing if the terminal is enabled or not and if it is ``secure'' (i.e. the super user should be allowed to login on the line). All fields are character strings with entries requiring embedded white space enclosed in double quotes. Thus a newly added terminal /dev/tty00 could be added as .DS tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure # Steve's office .DE The std.9600 parameter provided to /usr/libexec/getty is used in searching the file /etc/gettytab; it specifies a terminal's characteristics (such as baud rate). To make custom terminal types, consult .IR gettytab (5) before modifying /etc/gettytab. .PP Dialup terminals should be wired so that carrier is asserted only when the phone line is dialed up. For non-dialup terminals from which modem control is not available, you must either wire back the signals so that the carrier appears to always be present, or show in the minor device number that carrier is to be assumed to be present by adding 128 decimal to the minor device number when creating the device node. This differs from 4.3BSD where the softcarrier state is specified at kernel configuration time. .PP For network terminals (i.e. pseudo terminals), no program should be started up on the lines. Thus, the normal entry in /etc/ttys would look like .DS ttyp0 none network .DE (Note the fourth field is not needed here.) .PP When the system is running multi-user, all terminals that are listed in /etc/ttys as \fBon\fP have their line are enabled. If, during normal operations, it is desired to disable a terminal line, you can edit the file /etc/ttys to change the terminal's status to \fBoff\fP and then send a hangup signal to the \fIinit\fP process, by doing .DS \fB#\fP kill \-1 1 .DE Terminals can similarly be enabled by changing the status field from \fBoff\fP to \fBon\fP and sending a hangup signal to \fIinit\fP. .PP Note that if a special file is inaccessible when \fIinit\fP tries to create a process for it, init will log a message to the system error logging process (/usr/sbin/syslogd) and try to reopen the terminal every minute, reprinting the warning message every 10 minutes. Messages of this sort are normally printed on the console, though other actions may occur depending on the configuration information found in /etc/syslog.conf. .PP Finally note that you should change the names of any dialup terminals to ttyd? where ? is in [0-9a-zA-Z], as some programs use this property of the names to determine if a terminal is a dialup. Shell commands to do this should be put in the /dev/MAKEDEV.local script. .NH 2 Adding users .PP New users can be added to the system by adding a line to the password file /etc/passwd. The procedure for adding a new user is described in .IR adduser (8). .PP You should add accounts for the initial user community, giving each a directory and a password, and putting users who will wish to share software in the same groups. .PP Several guest accounts have been provided on the distribution system; these accounts are for people at Berkeley, Bell Laboratories, and others who have done major work on UNIX in the past. You can delete these accounts, or leave them on the system if you expect that these people would have occasion to login as guests on your system. .NH 2 Site tailoring .PP All programs that require the site's name, or some similar characteristic, obtain the information through system calls or from files located in /etc. Aside from parts of the system related to the network, to tailor the system to your site you must simply select a site name, then edit the file .DS /etc/netstart .DE At or about line 25 in /etc/netstart you should find a line similar to: .DS /bin/hostname \fImyname.my.domain\fP .DE defines the value returned by the .IR gethostname (2) system call. Your hostname should be your fully qualified domain name. Programs such as .IR getty (8), .IR mail (1), .IR wall (1), .IR uucp (1), and .IR who (1) use this system call so that the binary images are site independent. .NH 2 Setting up the mail system .PP The mail system consists of the following commands: .DS .TS l l. /bin/mail old standard mail program, \fIbinmail\fP\|(1) /usr/ucb/mail UCB mail program, described in \fImail\fP\|(1) /usr/sbin/sendmail mail routing program /usr/spool/mail mail spooling directory /etc/aliases mail forwarding information /usr/bin/newaliases command to rebuild binary forwarding database /usr/ucb/biff mail notification enabler\(ua /usr/libexec/comsat mail notification daemon\(ua .TE .DE Mail is normally sent and received using the .IR mail (1) command, which provides a front-end to edit the messages sent and received, and passes the messages to .IR sendmail (8) for routing. The routing algorithm uses knowledge of the network name syntax, aliasing and forwarding information, and network topology, as defined in the configuration file /etc/sendmail.cf, to process each piece of mail. Local mail is delivered by giving it to the program /bin/mail that adds it to the mailboxes in the directory /usr/spool/mail/\fIusername\fP, using a locking protocol to avoid problems with simultaneous updates. After the mail is delivered, the local mail delivery daemon /usr/libexec/comsat is notified, which in turn notifies users who have issued a ``\fIbiff\fP y'' command that mail has arrived\(ua. .FS .IP \(ua comsat and biff are only available under systems configured for networking support. .FE .PP To set up the mail facility you should read the instructions in the file READ_ME in the directory /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail and then adjust the necessary configuration files. You should also set up the file /etc/aliases for your installation, creating mail groups as appropriate. Documents describing .IR sendmail 's operation and installation are also included on the distribution tape. .NH 3 Setting up a UUCP connection .PP The version of \fIuucp\fP included in \*(2B is an enhanced version of the one originally distributed with 32/V\(ua. .FS .IP \(ua The \fIuucp\fP included in this distribution is the result of work by many people; we gratefully acknowledge their contributions, but refrain from mentioning names in the interest of keeping this document current. .FE The enhancements include: .IP \(bu 3 support for many auto call units and dialers in addition to the DEC DN11, .IP \(bu 3 breakup of the spooling area into multiple subdirectories, .IP \(bu 3 addition of an \fIL.cmds\fP file to control the set of commands that may be executed by a remote site, .IP \(bu 3 enhanced ``expect-send'' sequence capabilities when logging in to a remote site, .IP \(bu 3 new commands to be used in polling sites and obtaining snap shots of \fIuucp\fP activity, .IP \(bu 3 additional protocols for different communication media. .LP This section gives a brief overview of \fIuucp\fP and points out the most important steps in its installation. .PP To connect two UNIX machines with a \fIuucp\fP network link using modems, one site must have an automatic call unit and the other must have a dialup port. It is better if both sites have both. .PP You should first read the paper in the UNIX System Manager's Manual: ``Uucp Implementation Description''. It describes in detail the file formats and conventions, and will give you a little context. In addition, the document ``setup.tblms'', located in the directory /usr/src/usr.bin/uucp/UUAIDS, may be of use in tailoring the software to your needs. .PP The \fIuucp\fP support is located in three major directories: /usr/bin, /etc/uucp, and /usr/spool/uucp. User commands are kept in /usr/bin, operational commands in /etc/uucp, and /usr/spool/uucp is used as a spooling area. The commands in /usr/bin are: .DS .TS l l. /usr/bin/uucp file-copy command /usr/bin/uux remote execution command /usr/bin/uusend binary file transfer using mail /usr/bin/uuencode binary file encoder (for \fIuusend\fP) /usr/bin/uudecode binary file decoder (for \fIuusend\fP) /usr/bin/uulog scans session log files /usr/bin/uusnap gives a snap-shot of \fIuucp\fP activity /usr/bin/uupoll polls remote system until an answer is received /usr/bin/uuname prints a list of known uucp hosts /usr/bin/uuq gives information about the queue .TE .DE The important files and commands in /etc/uucp are: .DS .TS l l. /etc/uucp/L-devices list of dialers and hard-wired lines /etc/uucp/L-dialcodes dialcode abbreviations /etc/uucp/L.aliases hostname aliases /etc/uucp/L.cmds commands remote sites may execute /etc/uucp/L.sys systems to communicate with, how to connect, and when /etc/uucp/SEQF sequence numbering control file /etc/uucp/USERFILE remote site pathname access specifications /usr/sbin/uucico \fIuucp\fP protocol daemon /etc/uucp/uuclean cleans up garbage files in spool area /usr/libexec/uuxqt \fIuucp\fP remote execution server .TE .DE while the spooling area contains the following important files and directories: .DS .TS l l. /usr/spool/uucp/C. directory for command, ``C.'' files /usr/spool/uucp/D. directory for data, ``D.'', files /usr/spool/uucp/X. directory for command execution, ``X.'', files /usr/spool/uucp/D.\fImachine\fP directory for local ``D.'' files /usr/spool/uucp/D.\fImachine\fPX directory for local ``X.'' files /usr/spool/uucp/TM. directory for temporary, ``TM.'', files /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE log file of \fIuucp\fP activity /usr/spool/uucp/SYSLOG log file of \fIuucp\fP file transfers .TE .DE .PP To install \fIuucp\fP on your system, start by selecting a site name. A \fIuucp\fP account must be created in the password file and a password set up. Then, create the appropriate spooling directories with mode 755 and owned by user \fIuucp\fP, group \fIdaemon\fP. .PP If you have an auto-call unit, the L.sys, L-dialcodes, and L-devices files should be created. The L.sys file should contain the phone numbers and login sequences required to establish a connection with a \fIuucp\fP daemon on another machine. For example, my L.sys file looks something like: .sp .DS elisa Any ACU 1200 7064297 "" \\\\r\\\\c ogin-EOT-ogin-\\\\r\\\\c-ogin xelisa assword: XXX etn-ra Any ACU 1200 8891237 "" \\\\r\\\\c ogin nuucp assword XXX anagld Never ACU 2400 8894517 name:-EOT-name: uucp assword: XXX .DE .sp The first field is the name of a site, the second shows when the machine may be called, the third field specifies how the host is connected (through an ACU, a hard-wired line, etc.), then comes the phone number to use in connecting through an auto-call unit, and finally a login sequence. The phone number may contain common abbreviations that are defined in the L-dialcodes file. The device specification should refer to devices specified in the L-devices file. Listing only ACU causes the \fIuucp\fP daemon, \fIuucico\fP, to search for any available auto-call unit in L-devices. Our L-dialcodes file is of the form: .DS ny 1-315- nj 1-201- bostn 1-617- .DE while our L-devices file is: .DS ACU cul0 unused 1200 ventel .DE Refer to the README file in the \fIuucp\fP source directory for more information about installation. .PP As \fIuucp\fP operates it creates (and removes) many small files in the directories underneath /usr/spool/uucp. Sometimes files are left undeleted; these are most easily purged with the \fIuuclean\fP program. The log files can grow without bound unless trimmed back; \fIuulog\fP maintains these files. Many useful aids in maintaining your \fIuucp\fP installation are included in a subdirectory UUAIDS beneath /usr/src/usr.bin/uucp. Peruse this directory and read the ``setup'' instructions also located there.