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From: bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp status & dial retries
Keywords: Sys V, HDB uucp, retries
Message-ID: <88@bmhalh.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 91 23:50:27 GMT
References: <772@csource.oz.au> <1991Jan03.145743.10921@esleng.uucp>
Reply-To: bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh)
Organization: Bruce M. Himebaugh
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In article <1991Jan03.145743.10921@esleng.uucp] dag@esleng.uucp (David A. Gilmour) writes:
]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
]
]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.

This works, with the exception that you can't specify less than 5 minutes, at
least on SCO Xenix.  If do try to specify less than 5 minutes, it raises it
back up to 5.  I don't know if this is the case on all *nix's, but just in
case...

Bruce
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