[rescue] tip and cu ::::WAS::::Re: SUN PCMCIA SBus Card

Jerry Kemp sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us
Fri May 25 15:37:24 CDT 2018


Dave,

You are absolutely correct here.

Still, it gave way too many people the 'shivers' when they saw me working/messing around with those configuration files, even though 
those particular systems weren't running UUCP.

Jerry



On 25/05/18 15:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 05/25/2018 04:09 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:

>> FWIW, when Solaris 2.5 shipped with PPP capability, one had to do some
>> basic setup/configuration of the 'cu' facility for PPP to work.B  My
>> understanding was that was the first time that was included as part of
>> the OS, and I upgraded (@HOME) from Solaris x86 ver 2.4 to get that PPP
>> capability.B  Prior to that, it was 3rd party packages, either PPP or
>> SLIP or CSLIP.
> 
>    I think that's a matter of the ppp subsystem and cu using the same
> dialer configuration file though, isn't it?
> 
>            -Dave


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