Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!esleng!dag
From: dag@esleng.uucp (David A. Gilmour)
Subject: Re: uucp status & dial retries
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.145743.10921@esleng.uucp>
Keywords: Sys V, HDB uucp, retries
Organization: Excalibur Systems Limited
References: <772@csource.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 91 14:57:43 GMT

In article <772@csource.oz.au> david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) writes:
>
>I'm using a HDB flavour uucp under Interactive Unix Sys V R3.2.
>
>Does anyone know of a way I can change the "time between retries" that
>uucico uses?  It seems to use some algorithm which increases the time
>on each retry, but for various reasons I need to tune this a little,
>since my host can get a little busy at times. A fixed retry rate would
>work somewhat better than what's occuring now.  The result is a very
>"lumpy" news and mail flow, which incurs some unnecessary overhead when
>a large inflow hits.
>

To change the retry limitations you must specify the retry time in the
Systems file.  For example:

        nodename Any;5 ACU 19200  5551212 in:--in: anonuucp
                     ^
specifies a fixed minimum retry period of 5 minutes.

See section 10.8.3 of the "Interactive Unix System Maintenance Procedures -
Version 2.2" for details.

The Nutshell book, "Managing UUCP and Usenet" says that HDB uses an exponential
retry scheme, starting with 5 minutes and growing larger as the number of un-
successful attemps increases.  The retry field overrides this.

Hope this helps.

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