uucp

[Timothy Murphy]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> Not really relevant to your query,
>> but are you sure you need karl in the uucp group?
>> I use uucp (I thought I was the only person left in the world using it)
>> and I am not in the uucp group, which only contains the user uucp.
>> Admittedly I use "port type tcp" but I wouldn't have thought
>> that was relevant.
>> 
> The default group for the serial ports is uucp.

But do you need to use a serial port for uucp
if you are not using a serial modem,
which I take it very few people on this list would be doing?

Do people normally use serial ports today?

Even if you are using a serial modem,
I'm not entirely clear why you need to have access to ttyS?
In my case, at least, uucp runs as a cron job
and conveys my email to /var/spool/mail/<whoever>.