Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (deraadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: what does this error message mean? Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 01:49:09 GMT References: <1991Jan10.190614.1232@vort.uucp> <1991Jan11.233546.2800@eci386.uucp> Organization: UofC cpsc Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: woods@eci386.uucp's message of 11 Jan 91 23:35:46 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: fsa woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes: > mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes: > > hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem > > software: ISC 3.2.2 > > problem: uucico failing on large file transfer. > > news calgary (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE) > > news calgary (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete) > > It means the other end dropped the line on you, probably because the > job you sent was too big for their ULIMIT. Nope. calgary does not have any sort of ulimit. SunOS4.1.1. No quotas on that 280M total/150M free partition. I should know, as calgary == cpsc.ucalgary.ca. vort has fairly large ulimit for uucp as well..