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Taylor Configuration Files We now return to the configuration files. Taylor UUCP gets its information from the following files: config This is the main configuration file. You can define your site’s UUCP name here. sys This file describes all known sites. For each site, it specifies its name, what times to call it, which number to dial (if any), what type of device to use, and how to log on. port This file contains entries describing each available port, together with the line speed supported and the dialer to be used. dial This file describes dialers used to establish a telephone connection. dialcode This file contains expansions for symbolic dial codes. call This file contains the login name and password to be used when calling a system. Rarely used. passwd This file contains login names and passwords that systems may use when logging in. It is used only when uucico does its own password checking. Taylor configuration files are generally made up of lines containing keyword-value pairs. A hash sign introduces a comment that extends to the end of the line. To use a hash sign to mean itself, escape it with a backslash like this: \#. There are quite a number of options you can tune with these configuration files. We can’t go into all the parameters, but we will cover the most important ones here. Then you should be able to configure a modem-based UUCP link. Additional sections describe the modifications necessary if you want to use UUCP over TCP/IP or over a direct serial line. A complete reference is given in the Texinfo documents that accompany the Taylor UUCP sources. When you think you have configured your UUCP system completely, you can check your configuration using the uuchktool (located in /usr/lib/uucp). uuchk reads your configuration files and prints out a detailed report of the configuration values used for each system. General Configuration Options Using the config File You won’t generally use this file to describe much beside your UUCP hostname. By default, UUCP will use the name you set with the hostname command, but it is generally a good idea to set the UUCP name explicitly. Here’s a sample config file: # /usr/lib/uucp/config -UUCP main configuration file hostname vstout A number of miscellaneous parameters can be set here too, such as the name of the spool directory or access rights for anonymous UUCP. The latter will be described later in this chapter in the section “Anonymous UUCP.” How to Tell UUCP About Other Systems Using the sys File The sys file describes the systems that your machine knows about. An entry is introduced by the system keyword; the subsequent lines up to the next system directive detail the parameters specific to that site. Commonly, a system entry defines parameters such as the telephone number and login chat.