in reply to Using UUCp command in a Perl script

uucp?

Really?

Checks calendar. Looks around for rips in the space-time continuum.

It's 2008 and you're trying to use uucp? Wow. Just . . . wow.

(Seriously though, the error is because your system's uucp config doesn't know how to get to a machine named sysPC. This is the point where you find the ancient relic of a sysadmin at your site and ask them to cast runes or study entrails or whatever other deep magic and make uucp know the host. Or just punt and switch to a cross-system copy command that's been in widespread use more recently than the late 70s/early 80s . . .)

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Re^2: Using UUCp command in a Perl script
by adamk (Chaplain) on Mar 27, 2008 at 23:25 UTC
    I use UUCP at work, to talk to a very very old, but very VERY important legacy system.

    It's just one of those things that anything that has lived long enough to force you to use something so old, tends to be very important.

    On the plus side, UUCP does have a couple of things going for it.

    - Nobody targets exploits at it

    - So well polished that the code is utterly bulletproof. It simply NEVER breaks.
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