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From: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP Timeout problem
Keywords: Sun->Hexacom->lots of ocean->Telebit->Sun, uucp times out
Message-ID: <87@motto.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:24:13 GMT
References: <16808@roanoke.fibercom.COM>
Reply-To: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Organization: Communications Division, Motorola Canada Ltd., Toronto
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dwm@fibercom.UUCP writes:
>Does anyone have any ideas about what's going on here?  Could it be a modem
>problem?  Something to do with MNP (none of my other connections use it)?
>Something to do with the intercontinental phone line?
>
>Lacking any answers, does anyone have any constructive suggestions for how I
>go about debugging this problem further?

I was experiencing this problem with dialups as well.  If the problem you
are having is anything like the problem I had, then the difficulty is on
the machine being polled.  The scenario was the same (roughly) as what you
have described, but I managed to track the problem to the fact that the
account that was being used to login for UUCP was unable to access the
uucico program and UUCP data files because of file protections.  Check them
out and you may find the source of your difficulties.

Good luck!

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
Internet: murray@motto.UUCP (work)       mskucherawy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) 
UUCP:     uunet!utai!lsuc!motto!murray   uunet!watmath!mskucherawy