Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!unixland!bill From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) Subject: Re: fas 2.08 problems Message-ID: <1991Apr24.221233.461@unixland.uucp> Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix References: <1991Apr22.233736.9313@unixland.uucp> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 22:12:33 GMT In article gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes: >bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: > >In both cases you need to find a way to enable the HUPCL flag on >login. Did you check the /etc/gettydefs file? Is the HUPCL flag >contained in the line you use for that port? If not, add it. This is the gettydefs entry (2400 used as sample) 2400H# B2400 # B2400 CS8 CSTOPB HUCPL BRKINT ICRNL ISIG ICANON ECHO ECHOK OPOST ONLCR #((2400)To use Bulletin Board type "bbs")\r\nlogin: #1200H >I'm not sure, but I heard of uucicos that don't like long login banners >and give up if there is no Shere= message contained in a certain >number of characters. That would also explain why this only happens >with one of the UUCP sites. The other two may have shorter banners. Short >from replacing uucico, I don't know how to fix this. I got it to work by fiddling with the login script. It was interesting thta it was only this one site, and only after installing FAS that I had this problem! Actually, when I had previously tried to use flow control the same thing had happened. Very strange. Now to get the transfer rates up to normal again. Bill -- bill@unixland.uucp The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix ...!uunet!think!unixland!bill ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill 508-655-3848 (2400) 508-651-8723 (9600-HST) 508-651-8733 (9600-PEP-V32)