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From: dvb@emisle.uucp (David Van Beveren)
Subject: Re: UUCP General distress
Message-ID: <1991May14.030004.2025@emisle.uucp>
Reply-To: dvb@emisle.UUCP (David Van Beveren)
Organization: Emerald Isle Systems, Ltd. Agoura Hills, CA
References: <1991May14.025542.1939@emisle.uucp>
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 03:00:04 GMT
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In article <1991May14.025542.1939@emisle.uucp> dvb@emisle.emisle (David Van Beveren) writes:
>
>
>Forgive this posting. I am probably in the wrong newsgroup. Please re-direct
>me to the correct group...
>
>I have one news site that runs System V 3.2 (Interactive 2.0.2). The HDB uucp
>software has never given me a problem.
>
>Now at another site, the hardware is a Sun 3-50 running SunOS 4.1.1, supposedly
>HDB as well, but things are in different directories (/etc/uucp, /var/spool,
>et. al.)
>
>This site the Sun3 runs fine in the master mode when calling, and in the
>slave mode when receiving, but the vice-versa does not work. 
>
>Ex: from the sun I type uucp -r file xxxhub!~ and then run Uutry. This works
>    great. When I have someone at xxxhub put a file in /usr/spool/uucppublic,
>    I can say uucp -f xxxhub!file !~ and it works great too. However, when
                   ^^^^ - sorry, typo should be -r for spooling only
>    I say mail joe@xxxhub, then poll the sun from the other machine, the Uutry
>    run from the other machine hangs just after role reversal:
>
>cut out from Uutry info:
>
>wmesg 'H'
>rmesg - 'H' got HN
> PROCESS: msg - HN
>*** TOP ***  -  role=0, setline - X
>rmesg - '' 
>
>It hangs in this state until it times out. (The ISC machine keeps saying alarm
>1 .. alarm 10)
>
>When I know that my news feed has news for me at the sun, and I call it, I get
>the same dialog on the sun as I did above on the ISC. Now, this may be
>two different problems, but they look similar to me. The sun seems to cause
>the problem, hanging right after the role reversal. THis happens, like I said,
>whether the sun is the caller or the callee.
>
>Help Please. I am no uucp guru, and would really like to solve this porblem.
>
>
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