UUCP universe problem

[karl_kleinpaste at cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu]

news1 at texbell.swbt.com writes:
   The login "nuucp" is shown as "nuucp:att" in /etc/u_universe. However,
   UUCP still arrives in the UCB universe. This happens when using UUCP via
   TCP/IP, but not modems.
   The uucpd demon must be hard-wired to UCB uucico, and the login code
   embedded into the demon, rather than the normal login process which maps
   to the proper universe.

The problem is that all inetd-based servers wake up in the UCB
universe, because that's where inetd itself lives.  So they follow a
fairly natural progression in this regard.  And no, uucpd doesn't do
universe-specific things.

Perverse as this may seem, a reasonable fix may be to hack on the uucpd
entry in /etc/servers somewhat.  Currently, mine looks like this...

uucp	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/etc/in.uucpd	uucpd

Now if it's changed to this...

uucp	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/.ucbbin/att	att /usr/etc/in.uucpd

...I think you'll get the effect you want.

(I'm also running 4.4c...)

--karl