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Subject: Re: Questions on Minix uucp
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>From article <20294@nigel.udel.EDU>, by rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson):
> I have successfully installed the MicroWalt uucp, wmail amd umail packages
> under Minix 1.5.10, a very big thanks to Fred, Peter and all the others
Thanks.
> who contributed to these packages.  Too bad they didn't make it into the
> 1.5 distribution :-(
These packages are far too large to be put in StdMINIX.  As Andy once
pointed out to me, not all people want these things.  They do have to pay
an additional $6,- for each extra distr. disk, which seems very unfair to
me.

That is why I started the NLMUG archive, of which I post the Index every
week.  This way, people can get these packages, whithout the price of
MINIX going sky-high...

> 
> They seem to work but I am having some difficulties getting them to work
> the way I want them to.  I want to automaticly poll several systems for work
> such as rmail and file xfers.  I added crontab entries like:
> 
> 0 1 * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -shostname -x1
> 
> for each system, spacing them by 30 min or so.  The sytems get called and
> the mail gets transferred but it gets stuck in /usr/spool/uucp  Remote file
> xfers seem to be requested, but Minix uucp never starts the xfer.  If I
> manually run /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt as root after uucico is done, mail gets
> posted to the mbox of the user.
> 
> So question 1:  how do I set up to force rmail execution at time of trasnfer?
You don't have to.  Normally, uucico starts uuxqt as soon as is finished.
It looks like the protections are not set right.
Please check you Logfile (/usr/lib/uucp/Log/uucico.log) if it
has anything to complain about.  If not, e-mail to me.
I will summarize if of general interest.

> 
>    question 2:  what else needs to be done to allow file transfers to go?
See above: protections.

Also, memory can be a problem.
My AT has 16Mb of memory:
	/tmp:		4Mb of RAM disk
	/usr/tmp:	4Mb of RAM disk

The rest is system memory, for the kernel and all other processes.
Small (512/640K) systems may fail to execute /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt
because no more memory is left.  In that case (Logfile!), try to
set back the Stack allocation of various programs...

> 
> On my Sys V system, this is handled by uusched (I think) which we don't have.
Not (yet) needed.  Might come in the future.

Fred van Kempen
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