Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!nancy!eecae!gendrich From: gendrich@eecae.UUCP (Chuck Gendrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: UUCP on Unix PC V 3.51 Keywords: uucico Message-ID: <8601@eecae.UUCP> Date: 25 May 88 21:06:09 GMT References: <140@ssdis.UUCP> Reply-To: gendrich@eecae.UUCP (Chuck Gendrich) Distribution: na Organization: Michigan State Univ., Engineering, E. Lansing Lines: 49 In article <140@ssdis.UUCP> gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff) writes: > ... About 150K into the > file uucico (running in the background from my shell) says: > r short 2 want 3 > rcount=0 > xcount=0 > > This is an error message? Yes, this is an error message. Sounds like a checksum was bad or something. > ... The LOGFILE in /usr/lib/uucp says INPUT ERROR IN SEND/SLAVE mode When your system calls another one and starts up uucico, one side goes into SLAVE mode and the other side goes into MASTER mode. > which is odd because I am starting uucico as > /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s & (to fork into the background) > doesn't this make me master (role=1) and I am receiving a file not sending > it. The -r flag sets the number of times to retry, not which mode to enter during the transfer. Your system logs into the other one, therefore the other one goes into MASTER mode. After both sides agree on which UUCP protocol to use, the MASTER sends any files which he may have lying around. Then it asks "What do you want?". Your system, the SLAVE, says "Please send me this file.", and the transfer is on. You can look at what's happening during a UUCP if you use uucico -r1 -s -x9 2> FileName tail -f FileName (Then you'll have the record of the transactions as well as being able to look at what's going on while it's happening. Tee doesn't work for this since the uucico output is going to stderr.) If you use a smaller value with the debug flag (-x), you'll get less verbose output. Any more comments from out in net.land? CHuck -- CHuck Gendrich ARPA and CSnet: gendrich@msudoc.egr.msu.edu 5752 Richwood, #76 Usenet: {ihnp4, umich, well}!msudoc!gendrich Lansing, MI 48911 phone: (517) 882-6027 (h) 353-3969 (w) - Don't talk with mIKE, or he'll convince you to get your own!!! :-}