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From: snoopy@sopwith (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp status & dial retries
Keywords: Sys V, HDB uucp, retries, 4BSD
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.182231.16763@sopwith>
Date: 12 Jan 91 18:22:31 GMT
References: <772@csource.oz.au> <1991Jan03.145743.10921@esleng.uucp> <88@bmhalh.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <88@bmhalh.UUCP> bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh) writes:
|In article <1991Jan03.145743.10921@esleng.uucp] dag@esleng.uucp (David A. Gilmour) writes:
|]
|]        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...

4.3 BSD will honor 1 minute.  As it should.  Unix is supposed to
do what you tell it to.  SCO is broken.

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