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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: getting UUCP expect/send scripts working
Message-ID: <1991Mar05.173537.14831@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Mar 91 17:35:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.213742.17329@wciu.EDU>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991Mar4.213742.17329@wciu.EDU> george@wciu.wciu.edu (George Peavy) writes:

>Here's the problem: I have things working enough that I can call out manually
>using cu, but when I attach to a remote system, the expect/send set up in my
>Systems file are being ignored (I have checked this using cu -d).  Thus, my
>attempts to get uucico to work so far have been in vain.

Cu doesn't attempt to execute the login script in the Systems file.  If you
want to debug this script, try using:
/usr/lib/uucp/Uutry -r remote_name
which is a shell script that runs uucico with debugging on and the
output redirected to a file.  You are then put into a "tail -f" of
the file so you can watch what happens.  Note that (a) you need
read permission on the Systems file or you won't see the real strings,
(b) you have to interrupt out of the tail -f, and (c) when you
interrupt out, the uucico is still running, so you either have to wait
until it fails to try the same system again or use ps to find its
process id and kill it.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us