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From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucico timeout
Message-ID: <462@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 06:22:31 GMT
References: <9321@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
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kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts) writes:

>So help me, I _have_ RTFM.

Which one? The one for uucico (1M) I assume. You should also look at the
Manualpage for L.sys (4). Here are excerpts which might interest you as
they pertain to your present problem.

a) This one you probably know since you've set up a uucp connection:

	  .....
	  the UUCP Administrator; it is	accessible only	to the
	  Administrator	and to the superuser.

	  Each line in L.sys describes one connection to one remote
	  host,	and has	the form:

	  System  Times	 Caller	 Class	Device/Phone_Number  [Expect  Send]....

	  Fields can be	separated by any number	of blanks or tabs.
	  Lines	beginning with a `#' character are comments.

	  The first five fields	(System	through	Device/Phone_Number)
	  specify the hardware mechanism that is necessary to make a
	  .....


b) This is the specification for the 'Times'-Field:

	  .....
	  Times	specifies the times of the day and week	that calls are
	  permitted to this System.  Times is most commonly used to
	  restrict long	distance telephone calls to those times	when
	  rates	are lower.  The	format is:

	       keywordhhmm-hhmm,retry_time

	  Keyword must be one of:

	  Any	  Any time, any	day of the week.  This is the default
		  if keyword is	ommitted.
	  [ .... and so on .... (who really wants to know) ]

>>HERE'S THE INTERESTING PART:<<

	  The retry_time subfield is optional; it must be preceded by
	  a `,'	(comma)	and specifies the time,	in minutes, before a
	  failed connection may	be tried again.	 (This restriction is
	  in addition to any constraints imposed by the	rest of	the
	  Time field.)	By default, the	retry time is 50 minutes.
	  Uucico will try at most 26 times to establish	a connection;
	  if the retry_time is set too small, this limit may be
	  reached too quickly.
	  .....

Conclusion: Write '<Callingtimes>,<Retrytime-desired>' in the times-entry
of L.sys. Have your cron-job retry the connection by calling the uucico
more often (i.e. as often as <Retrytimes-desired>) This should work.

Martin
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