SYSFILES(F)              XENIX System V               SYSFILES(F)



     Name
          sysfiles - Format of UUCP Sysfiles file.

     Description
          The /usr/lib/uucp/Sysfiles file lets you assign different
          files to be used by uucp(C) and cu(C) as Systems, Devices,
          and Dialers files.

          You can use different Systems files so that requests for
          login services can be made to different addresses than UUCP
          services.

          With different Dialers files you can use different
          handshaking for cu and uucp.  Multiple Systems, Dialers, and
          Devices files are useful if any one file becomes too large.

          An active Sysfiles file is not included in the distribution.
          Instead a Sysfiles.eg file is included, which contains
          comments and commented examples of how such a file can be
          used.  This is done because UUCP runs faster without reading
          this file.

          The format of the Sysfiles file is

            service=w  systems=x:x dialers=y:y devices=z:z

          where w is replaced by uucico(ADM), cu, or both separated by
          a colon; x is one or more files to be used as the Systems
          file, with each file name separated by a colon and read in
          the order presented; y is one or more files to be used as
          the Dialers file; and z is one or more files to be used as
          the Devices file.  Each file is assumed to be relative to
          the /usr/lib/uucp directory, unless a full path is given.  A
          backslash-carriage return (\<CR>) can be used to continue an
          entry on to the next line.

          An example of using a local Systems file in addition to the
          usual Systems file follows:

               service=uucico:cu  systems=Systems:Local_Systems


          If this is in /usr/lib/uucp/Sysfiles, then both uucico and
          cu will first look in /usr/lib/uucp/Systems.  If the system
          they're trying to call doesn't have an entry in that file,
          or if the entries in the file fail, then they'll look in
          /usr/lib/uucp/Local_Systems.

          When different Systems files are defined for uucico and cu
          services, your machine will store two different lists of
          Systems.  You can print the uucico list using the uuname
          command or the cu list using the uuname -c command.



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     Examples
          The following example uses different Systems and Dialers
          files to separate the uucico and cu-specific info, with
          information that they use in common still in the ``usual''
          Systems and Dialers files.

          service=uucico  systems=Systems.cico:Systems \
                          dialers=Dialers.cico:Dialers
          service=cu      systems=Systems.cu:Systems \
                          dialers=Dialers.cu:Dialers

          This next example uses the same systems files for uucico and
          cu, but has split the Systems file into local, company-wide,
          and global files.

          service=uucico  systems=Systems.local:Systems.company:Systems
          service=cu      systems=Systems.local:Systems.company:Systems

     See Also
          uucico(ADM), uucp(C), systems(F)



































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