Create or edit UUCP configuration files

UUCP uses five different configuration files to describe various aspects of your UUCP setup. Sample configuration files are shipped in the /samples directory. You can customize them. To do this, log in as the UUCP user or use the su command to switch to the user uucp so that you can create or change configuration files. Copy each configuration file into the /usr/lib/uucp directory and customize it with entries for your local system. Table 1 lists these files and summarizes the information each one contains. Because the UUCP configuration files are delivered as symbolic links that are directed to files in the /var/uucp directory, you can copy the files directly to /var/uucp if you prefer. See Customizing the cron, uucp, and mail utilities for a read-only root file system for more information.

Table 1. UUCP configuration files. List of UUCP configuration files and their contents
File	Contents
Systems	Lists each supported system and describes when and how to establish a connection for each system. See The systems file.
Devices	Describes communications hardware on your system. See The Devices file.
Dialers	Contains dialing instructions for your system's modems. See The Dialers file.
Dialcodes	Defines abbreviations that can be used as part of phone numbers. See The Dialcodes file.
Permissions	Defines for each remote system the sections of your file system that can be read from or written to and the commands which can be executed on your system by that system. Also defines how your system exchanges queued work with remote systems. See The Permissions file.

If you need to make changes to your configuration, edit the configuration files and then run the uucc command to compile them.