uucp/uucico problems
Chip Yamasaki
chip at osh3.OSHA.GOV
Fri May 31 12:48:02 AEST 1991
In <234 at mnopltd.UUCP> neal at mnopltd.UUCP writes:
>->In an article, gt8963a at prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes:
>->|I'm having problems with the part of sco 2.3.2 that's not like straight
>->|unix. What's happening is that emailed msgs to remote systems
>->|(using the "remotesysid!loginid" format) don't leave my system until
>->|the remote systems sends something to my system. Does anybody have a
>->|clue as to why this is. This happens in sending to most (or maybe all)
>->|remote sites.
>->
>->Try uncommenting the lines in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp and then
>->kick cron.
>->
>I don't think so. I don't even use cron for uucp. If you write outgoing
>mail, uucp should exec uucico immediately as long as the relevant site in
>Systems has an ok range of call times. In this regard SCO is just like all
>others.
>In fact, other than the optional Dialers programs, SCO uucp IS exactly like
>normal Sys V HDB uucp to the casual observer.
>Why don't you try a uutry -r "whatever" and see what really happens when
>you do outgoing uucp?
On my version of SCO Xeni SysV286 2.2.1 (I know, it's old), something
(documentation somewhere) made me put a line that says:
STARTJOB=NO
in my /etc/default/uucp file. You might check for one of those. You
could also try a uucico without the -r and see if it calls right away.
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