Path: utzoo!sis!caswell!bob
From: bob@caswell.UUCP (Bob Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: uucp posting..
Message-ID: <42@caswell.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 16:58:25 GMT
Reply-To: bob@caswell.UUCP (Bob Caswell)
Organization: R. Caswell & Associates, Inc.
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> In article <37455@cci632.UUCP> tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
> >It will send packages from my system to system "sysname", but if something
> >is queued on sysname it will not switch over to SLAVE mode and receive them.
> >What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I am the person responsible for the "uucp155" file on Plains.  I took Peter
> Housel's uupc for v1.3 and made it work on 1.5.5; it only required changing
> ioctl(2) calls and a few other small things.  The ioctl interface hasn't
> changed significantly since then.  I recall sending mail both directions and
> I think I sent files, too.
> 
> Check out the host you're connecting to; sites running HoneyDanBer UUCP are
> quite paranoid.  If the system that is sending to you has a
> /usr/lib/uucp/Systems (rather than a L.sys) file, then it's HDB.  You'll
> have to change "Permissions".....

When I had something to send to an other system, I experienced the same 
problem when using the uucp version posted to the net by Peter Housel last
year.
After detailed examination of the debug output I saw that:

 1) I was able to send all files that were queued to the other system.
 2) After receiving the *first* of many files that were to be sent to my 
    system I found that "my" system always broke the connection.
    The connection was broken as part of the uucp protocol.. At the time
    I believed that there was a bug, but I couldn't find it.  Also,I did not
    have any documentation on how uucp was supposed to respond... and
    I did have a circumvention which was .... 
 3) When I polled the other system again, (with nothing to send), I was always
    able to retrieve the balance of the files queued for my system.

You will note that I was always polling the other system to pick up my mail
and other files.  The other system NEVER would call me; so HDB uucp permissions
would never be a consideration in MY case.

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