Limiting number of uucp retries for failed connections

[Bill Jackson]

Does anybody know of a method to restrict the *number* of times uucp will
retry a line which fails to connect?  I can see options for the retry 
*interval*, restrictions for when to call etc, in the schedule field of
Systems (or L.sys), but I have never found anything to stop systems
making lots of calls when a remote goes down.  It appears that the chat script
will be tried twice on a failure, then the hourly daemon will try the system
until the retry count is reached or the job is cleaned up by something else.
Problem is - this retry count is fixed and it seems to be large!

It would be handy to find an option which specified the maximum # of
attempts to be made to contact a remote system - one could set it high for
local connections, low for long distance etc. 

Maybe someone has come up with a cron script which performs this function?

We are a System V shop, running various flavours of Release 3 with HDB (BNU).
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Bill Jackson                          Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division
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