Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginger.acc.com!ivucsb!todd
From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: uucico is eating my outgoing mail!
Message-ID: <1989Oct14.105712.9505@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 14 Oct 89 10:57:12 GMT
Reply-To: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Organization: Disillusioned Graduate Hackers, Santa Barbara, CA
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I am running 3.5, using the old (non-HDB) uucico.  If my uucico is
sending out a packet, and the packet fails, it notes the failure
in the LOGFILE, but it ALSO DELETES THE PACKET!  Why????

Here's some chunks from a recent session:

anise!todd (10/14-2:29:40) (X,9331,0) XQT QUE'D (rmail apple.com!cpdaux!steve )
>This is the packet that gets eaten later.

anise!uucp (10/14-2:45:43) (C,9339,0) OK (DIAL tty001 Pxxx-xxxx< 33)
anise!uucp (10/14-2:45:49) (C,9339,0) SUCCEEDED (call to anise )
anise!uucp (10/14-2:46:00) (C,9339,0) OK (startup)
anise!todd (10/14-2:46:02) (C,9339,0) REQUEST (S D.aniseBC5662 D.aniseBC5662 todd)
anise!todd (10/14-2:48:25) (C,9339,1) BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)
anise!todd (10/14-2:48:25) (C,9339,1) FAILED (conversation complete)
Here, we get a normal logon, but anise is grinding under a heavy load
(often does that at night), so uucico decides to call it a day after
waiting too long.

anise!uucp (10/14-3:24:30) (C,9271,0) OK (startup)
anise!uucp (10/14-3:24:31) (C,9271,0) REQUESTED (S D.aniseBimh2 D.aniseSimh2 news)
anise!news (10/14-3:28:00) (C,9271,1) COPY (SUCCEEDED)
anise!uucp (10/14-3:28:02) (C,9271,1) REQUESTED (S D.aniseXimh0 X.anisedimh3 news)
anise!news (10/14-3:28:03) (C,9271,2) COPY (SUCCEEDED)
anise!todd (10/14-3:28:05) (C,9271,2) REQUEST (S D.aniseBC5662 D.aniseBC5662 todd)
anise!todd (10/14-3:28:05) (C,9271,2) FAILED (CAN'T READ D.aniseBC5662 2)
Now here, anise is sending me files.  They get here okay, but now uucico can't
find the old file that failed above!  It has eaten it.

Now, why does the UNIXPC uucico delete files on failure?  Is there anything
I can do to prevent this?

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Todd Day  |  todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us  |  ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
		Giants or A's in *seven*!