From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:54:12 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD In-Reply-To: <20170307070941.GA2012@minnie.tuhs.org> (Warren Toomey's message of "Tue, 7 Mar 2017 17:09:41 +1000") References: <20170307070941.GA2012@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <86varlfrob.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> Warren Toomey wrote: > Hi all, as part of my effort to recreate part of a simulated Usenet, > I'm trying to bring up uucp, then mail, then C-news on 4.2BSD boxes. I would like to suggest making an automated script to perform all configuration and build steps. It may be a bit of overhead, but I think it pays off in the long run. A ready to go system image is great for easy deployment, but you will not always remember how you got to that working state.