Xref: utzoo unix-pc.uucp:59 comp.sys.att:4565 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!nwnexus!cjsa!jeff From: jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (C. Jeffery Small) Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp,comp.sys.att Subject: problem with (HDB) uucp Keywords: HDB uucp unixpc 3B1 Message-ID: <137@cjsa.WA.COM> Date: 21 Oct 88 20:01:59 GMT Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - Woodinville, WA Lines: 49 We are running the HDB version of uucp and friends on our 3B1/UNIX-PC. I just discovered a serious problem which I was hoping some of you (who also run this version of the software) could verify. When specifying the source-file component of a uucp request, uucp complains with the error message "illegal syntax " if the source-file path contains more than one machine_name in the specification. What is particularly confusing about this is that the destination-file path does not exhibit this restriction! Some examples should make this clearer. Assume that you are connected to "mach1" which has the file "/usr/spool/uucppublic/M1". Also assume that "mach1" is connected to "mach2" which has the file "/usr/spool/uucppublic/M2". Finally, assume that your machine contains the file "/usr/spool/uucppublic/XX" The following commands all work: uucp ~uucp/XX mach1!~uucp/XX # (send local file to mach1) uucp ~uucp/XX mach1!mach2!~uucp/XX # (send local file to mach2) uucp mach1!~uucp/M1 ~uucp/M1 # (pickup file from mach1) But the following command results in the uucp error message: uucp mach1!mach2!~uucp/M2 ~uucp/M2 # (pickup file from mach2) There appears to be a bug in the uucp command which doesn't allow it to process source-file specifications properly. Note that this problem does not occur if you use the standard supplied uucp - only the HDB version. Since AT&T has not elected to support this product, the Hotline doesn't even want to discuss this problem. So my question: Can anyone else running HDB verify this problem, and short of removing HDB from the system, is there a workaround for retrieving files with multiple machine hops? Thanks for any insights. -- Jeffery Small (206) 485-5596 uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp C. Jeffery Small and Associates !cjsa!jeff 19112 152nd Ave NE - Woodinville, WA 98072 uunet!nwnexus