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From: snafu@ihlpm.UUCP (Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help with UUCP
Message-ID: <856@ihlpm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 13:08:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 13:08:41 1986
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The 'retry time' mechanism is used by basic
networking when a uucp attempt to another machine
has failed. This prevents a bad connection from
eating up too many resources by limiting how often
the machine can be called. The mechanism can be
overridden using the `Uutry` command, which
basically invokes uucico in master mode, redirects its
output to the file /tmp/<system>, and then does a tail -f
on /tmp/<system>. This allows you to monitor the
session and break out of the tail if you wish
before uucico is complete. The command
'/usr/lib/uucp/Uutry -r <system>', when run from
root, will override the retry time. Hope this
helps you.

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                              Dave Wallis
                           ihnp4!ihlpm!snafu
                       AT&T Network Systems, Inc.
                            (312) 510-6238