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From: ee@lever.com (Edward Elhauge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Multiple L.sys lines in UUCP
Keywords: Reliable UUCP
Message-ID: <528@lever.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 19:54:30 GMT
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Several of the sites we contact have several phone numbers, some of which are
busy or go down from time to time.

The obvious solution is to put multiple lines for that site L.sys, one for
each phone number. The problem I have is that after uucp tries the first
number (first L.sys entry) and fails to log in, it doesn't go on to try the
subsequent lines for that system.

What I have noticed when running uucico iteractively with -x7 is that
subsequent lines are only tried when the exit code is non-zero for a line.
This will happen if my modem is turned off for instance. If the failure is in
the chat script, which is often for the Telebit entries, the exit code is
still zero even though the chat script failed.

What to do? FYI I am runnig Sun OS 4.0.3 on a 3/60.
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