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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: uucp on SYSV
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 22:32:40 EST
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uucp uses a backoff scheme to avoid immediately retrying calls to
systems that won't cooperate (e.g., modem dead, phone busy, etc.).
you're running honey danber, so it's an exponential backoff.

uustat -q tells you when another attempt can be made.

to subvert this mechanism, delete or truncate
/usr/spool/uucp/.Status/<hostname>.

it can be argued that uucp should ignore the status file when debug
mode is on -- here, i do so if debug level is 5 or more.

	peter