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From: ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Multiple L.sys lines in UUCP
Summary: Thinks you already connected
Keywords: Reliable UUCP
Message-ID: <576@racerx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:05:44 GMT
References: <528@lever.com>
Organization: Bridge Information Systems, St. Louis
Lines: 26

In article <528@lever.com>, ee@lever.com (Edward Elhauge) writes:
> 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.

I'm not privy to the internals of uucico, but when you use a Telebit with
SunOS pre 4.1 (pre-HDB), you have to work around the brain-dead dialer by 
pretending that you're directly connected and put the dialer conversation
in the login chat script.  Since uucico thinks that you already connected,
but failed the login, it obviously does not see any point in trying again.
It only uses multiple L.sys entries to try to connect.  Once connected, it
will not try another line if the login fails.

As I said, I am not privy to the internals of Sun's uucico, but it makes sense
that this is the way that it works (which is not the same as saying that it
makes sense that this is the way that it _should_ work).


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Ken Hardy                         uunet!racerx!ken
Bridge Information Systems        ken@racerx.com