Jaring + UUCP

Isn’t it just amazing how they can keep a relatively unknown facility working almost twenty years later?

[shahada@icky ~]$ mail shahada@abubakar.net
Subject: Testing UUCP outgoing
Hello World




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Cc: 

… and then (because I’m lazy to wait for the next cron job) …

[shahada@icky ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@icky ~]# uucico -s jaring
[root@icky ~]# tail /var/log/uucp/Log
uux jaring shahada (2010-09-15 01:40:23.67 29998) Queuing rmail shahada@abubakar.net (D.0003)
uucico jaring - (2010-09-15 01:41:08.21 30088) Calling system jaring (port TCP)
uucico jaring - (2010-09-15 01:41:08.51 30088) Login successful
uucico jaring - (2010-09-15 01:41:10.58 30088) Handshake successful (protocol 't')
uucico jaring shahada (2010-09-15 01:41:10.62 30088) Sending rmail shahada@abubakar.net (D.0003) (557 bytes)
uucico jaring - (2010-09-15 01:41:10.79 30088)
Call complete (2 seconds 557 bytes 278 bps)

and seconds later …

Oh how far it’s come from those early dial-up 28.8Kb/s UUCP (and I don’t mean SLIP or PPP, I mean real UUCP dial-up!) days, and now running over a 5Mb/s Fiber-optic line.

For those of you who’ve just joined the show: http://e.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

This post was originally published as a Facebook Note at 2010-09-15 02:09:21 +0800.