Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6790 comp.sys.next:18548 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dat33228 From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: UUCP mail problem Message-ID: <1991Jun6.060328.24607@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 06:03:28 GMT References: <1991Jun5.011104.24869@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 49 mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) writes: >> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes: >> >In article <741@synopsys.COM> brianc@bambam.synopsys.com (Brian Caslis >> >(brianc@synopsys.com)) writes: >> >> I'm having a problem establishing a uucp connection. The two machines >> >> (a NeXT and a Sun 3) can establish the link fine, but when I try to >> >> send mail to the Sun, they establish the connection but the transmission >> >> of the mail hangs and eventually times out. >> >> Well, I had the exact same problem with a SYSV unix box and a Sun. Sounds to >> like Sun has done some nonstandard things to uucp. >Same here. Our system won't talk successfully to SunOS 4.1.1 UUCP, but >connects to other things with no problems. Oh, well, all this talk made me go back and try to fix things. And, I did. Several things could cause problems: 1) Make sure all flow control is disabled between the two machines (modems, gateways, etc...) 2) Make sure all gateway escape sequences are disabled (ie: I set a term download at our local dial-up) 3) Make sure that everything is in order on both ends. This includes uucico being setuid to the same owner as the spool directory, the USERFILE being correct, L.sys, etc. When the flow control was shut off, things got better (in fact, my mail transfers used to hang too). Then the escape code thing came into play. It seemed like the Sun just stopped, but looking at its AUDIT file, I could see that it was going fine, it was just a flow control problem. I've set up quite a few machines for uucp in the last few days, so I'm pretty fresh on it. I'd love to try and help, so feel free to mail me questions. In fact, I should soon have an address for the NeXT in my apartment, thanx to my recent efforts... >mathew > -- Derek Taubert --> dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | GS stuff: GScii+ derek@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu | NeXT: give me a break, I just I've got an apartment network from hell... | started! How many of you can rlogin to the bathroom? | Unix: I do SYSV stuff too