Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!petunia!news From: cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar's Carbonated Hormones) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Help: Using FSUUCP Message-ID: <276c4ccd.441b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 90 04:42:53 GMT References: Organization: Fantasy, Incorporated: Reality None of Our Business. Lines: 50 MUNDAY@NKUVAX.BITNET (David Munday) recently informed us: >I've been trying to configure FSUUCP to log into a local UNIX system for >mail and news and I've been having problems. > >Can anyone using FSUUCP see what's wrong here? > >cinnet Any Hayes 2400 ATDT5551212 "" \d\d ogin: umunday / >WORD: pickle First off, you cannot do \d\d. needs to be an option in itself. That's why you're getting all that garbage. Do this: "" "" \d "" "" \d "" if you need to, but the directive was meant to be used once. I've never seen a situation where it was needed more than once. >-----------begin------------------------------------------------------------ >FSUUCP Version 1.1 Release 5: Could not connect to cinnet. > >EXIT STATUS: STARTUP: rmsg timeout (M1) >-----------end-------------------------------------------------------------- This means that the other system never sent that ROK message. Usually because you sent the wrong password or shere message... >-----------begin----------------------------------------------------------- >system "cinnet" is not in the l.sys file >-----------end------------------------------------------------------------- This just means that there is no directory for "cinnet", probably because you've not had a successful run, and it wasn't created. Once you log in and transfer things, it'll be created for you. What you need to do it check the other end and make sure that the shere message it's seeing is what it WANTS to see, and that you're logging in OK with the proper password, and that the other side starts up UUCICO properly. >also the -p and - options to callout do not tee the debug info >as they are expected to. That's -f ... -- ++Christopher(); --- cambler@polyslo.calpoly.edu --- chris@erotica.fubarsys.com --- A feature is a bug with seniority.