Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: uucp status & dial retries Keywords: Sys V, HDB uucp, retries, 4BSD Message-ID: <5357@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 18 Jan 91 04:32:57 GMT References: <1991Jan12.182231.16763@sopwith> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 22 >>> 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. >> 4.3 BSD will honor 1 minute. As it should. Unix is supposed to >> do what you tell it to. SCO is broken. > >More than likely, SCO Xenix *is* doing what he tells it to -- with a >bit more exactness than he wants. Perhaps; nevertheless, the behavior described above, namely setting a lower limit on retries to 5 minutes (at least in some cases), is a standard "feature" of the UUCP that comes with System V Release 3 and S5R3.1, and perhaps with earlier versions. The code quite explictly sets the time to 300 seconds if it's less than 300 seconds.... So it's not unique to SCO Xenix, and the SCO Xenix UUCP, if it inherited that "feature" from some flavor of AT&T UUCP, isn't doing what he tells it to. (I forget whether this "helpful" "feature" was in the S5R3.2 UUCP upon which the SunOS 4.1 UUCP was based, or, if it was, whether we ripped it out.)