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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: uucp alarms, hangs, dies for no apparent reason.
Message-ID: <478@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 08:45:19 EST
Article-I.D.: gouldsd.478
Posted: Wed Mar 18 08:45:19 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 07:00:23 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Landover MD.
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Keywords: argh!
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	We're running Gould UTX32 2.0 on a powernode 9080 (for background)
and have been having nothing but trouble with our uucp. First we found that
for some stupid reason /usr/spool/uucp has to be 777 mode. (no, I *KNOW*
that is a security problem!) Now we are getting odd cases where we get alarms
constantly, and then uucico hangs up. It seems as if it dislikes a certain
(100% ascii) (I checked) file, since it ALWAYS dies at the same packet from
the same file. Sites dialing in to us have a similar problem. They can
transfer 3/4 of the files, most of the time, and then they get alarms and
drop off. 
	Another site I know of (running a Pyramid under OSX) has what appears
to be exactly the same problem. 

	Anyone out there know about this, or heard any rumors ? Is there 
some kind of general breakage in the code, or is it local to Goulds :-)
E-mail to me, if interesting I will summarize to the net.

ThanX in advance
--mjr();

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