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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp problems
Message-ID: <13778@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 28 Jun 89 23:04:31 GMT
References: <375@amms4.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <375@amms4.UUCP> by hjg@amms2.UUCP (Harry Gross):
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| nowhere, a second uucico will start up, clobbering the first one.  The second
| one fails to log in, and the connection drops.  Examination of the LOGFILE
| shows that the second uucico was started by the same process as the first one.
+---------------

I assume you're running Sys5.2 1.5.  Try to get the 1.7 release; it is fixed
there.

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| 	Problem number 2: (again, occuring too frequently to ignore)  Sometimes,
| a copy of uucico will be started from a cron entry, it will make contact with
| the target machine (not one of mine for this problem, one of the other machines
| out there in UUCPnet land), the contact will complete, and the uucico will NOT
| terminate.  On one occasion, I found a copy of uucico that had been hanging
| around for over 300 minutes (as revealed by the ps listing).  This, of course,
| hangs up the dialout port, preventing anything else from getting out of the
| machine.  Once again, I am unable to locate any clues as to the cause of the
| problem.
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I think this was also fixed in 1.7; there was a special patch (I forget
which, but I can try to find out) to 1.5 to fix this as well.  (In fact,
there were two patches to 1.5 for two separate UUCP problems; both of these
that you mention, if I recall.  --The hanging uucico is fixed with a *kernel*
patch.-- Plexus does still seem to be around after a fashion, by the way (at
least, they seem to be on the Usenet still); you can try to contact them and
see if they still have the latest O/S or perhaps the UUCP and kernel
patches.)

I suggest you try to find someone with Sys5.2 1.7; if Motorola has taken
over the software support the same way they did the hardware support, they
may have a copy still.  Or possibly even Plexus, as mentioned above.

++Brandon
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