Other UUCP stuff

[Paul Maclauchlan]

[Note: posted for a friend...]

Geoff Coleman (geoff at edm.uucp) wrote:
>I came across a problem today with uux. On our System V (actualy CTIX 6) 
>we do remote prinitng by putting the line
>
>         uux -c machine!lp !$file
>
>in the interface file in place of the usual cat $file line.
>
>When sending files to the 6000 for this it returns a message to uucp account
>that the spooler can't find /usr/spool/uucp/.Xqtdir/<filename>. Any ideas on 
>this one. As well in there documentation they say that
>
>uux -C machine!command file operates on file on the local machine. Does it 
>not need a ! in front to tell it it's on the local machine?????
>
>p.s. the solution to my first problem was to have uux takes it input from stdin
>
>ie. cat $file | uux -c - machine!lp

I have the exact same problem using UUX to print between two RT's!! 

The answer to your easy question is that putting the ! in front is optional
since in a case like with printing, no "machine!" assumes the current machine.

I have reported this to IBM as a problem with AIX 2.2.1, however since there
is an effective work-around I don't think they are spending a lot of time
trying to solve it.  Some additional information that might help you is this:

I determined that the file IS being copied across to the remote system to be
printed because I started a small loop to copy all files in
/usr/spool/uucp/.Xqtdir to somewhere else and THERE IT WAS!  The problem seems
to be that the uuxqt process passes the job over the print daemon and then
removes the data file before the print daemon has a chance to print it.
It also seems to be a timing thing since once in a while it did work for me.

It seems now that it is a fundamental conflict between the uuxqt jobs and
the queuing system since it has been propagated to the RS/6000.  I suggest
that you submit the problem to IBM for AIX v3 and see if they get any 
further with it.

Scott McCambly
The Braegen Group Inc.
(...!uunet!attcan!telly!moore!bragrt!bragotrt!scott)

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