UUCP [ultrix] guru needed! [patch included]

[George Robbins]

In article <43032 at beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick at seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>Yes, It's a bug. It was fixed in 4.3BSD. Here is a rough idea
>of how it was fixed (Jim Bloom found and fixed this one).

Part of the problem is that some person at DEC changed the timeouts in pkcget
from 10 and 20 seconds to 25 and 30 seconds, in hopes of making things more
robust.  This actually increased the probability of the remote system timing
out before the local system and encountering the underlying protocol problem.

The following is a simple patch, applicable to ultrix 1.1 and 1.2, to reset
the timeouts to the correct values:

1) you must be root (or the setuid bits will go away!)
2) uucico must not be running
3) you should know what you are doing...
4) copy the old uucico to some safe place
5) make sure the numbers match

Script started on Wed Jan  7 03:21:27 198
# cd /usr/lib/uucp
# cp uuico uucico.nopatch
# adb -w uucico
pkcget+57?x
_pkcget+57:	19d0
?w 0ad0
_pkcget+57:	19d0	=	ad0
pkcget+5c?x
_pkcget+5c:	1ed0
?w 14d0
_pkcget+5c:	1ed0	=	14d0
#
^d
script done on Wed Jan  7 03:24:39 198

This seems to have solved most of my problems, but I would be interested in
any reports or comments.  
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