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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Help with uuxqt or rmail error message
Message-ID: <4904@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 88 13:26:34 GMT
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Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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David MacKenzie writes:
>While we're at it, every so often between two uucp v2 SVR1 systems
>people get messages from uucp that contain the message, "remote access
>to path/file denied."  I've never been able figure out what that means,
>and our uucp documentation doesn't give a clue.  Does this mean the
>message wasn't delivered on the remote end, wasn't spooled locally, or
>what?

here's the scenario.  host1 has a uux request spooled for host2.  host1
sends the first file.  host2 receives the file, and commits it to the
host1 subdirectory.  the connection fails before host1 receives
notification of successful receipt (CY message).

now host2 has the file in its subdirectory for host1, but host1 thinks
it has yet to successfully transfer the file.  when host1
re-establishes a connection to host2, host1 tries to resend the file.
because the file already exists, host2 rejects the request.  host1 then
sends the second file and everything works as intended.

in summary, it's benign.

	peter