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From: honey@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: Uucp runs out of processes.
Message-ID: <140@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 10:57:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 10:57:34 1983
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it would seem that your poll script is something like

    for i in $POLL; do
	/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s$i&
    done

(else how do you run out of processes?)  might i suggest the following:

    for i in $POLL; do
	touch $SPOOL/C.${i}z0000
    done
    /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1

	peter honeyman