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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
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Subject: Re: Autodialer from Hell
Message-ID: <397@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 16:13:58 GMT
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Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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keithl@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) sez:
> Due to a single digit error in my L.sys file, my modem has been harrassing
> some poor fellow for months.   I'm not the first to make this mistake, though 
> perhaps the first to admit it over the net.  
> 
> In any case, more can be done than just "being more careful next time",
> such as improving the data logging capabilities of uucico, so that it is
> easier to tell when the wrong kind of thing is happening.

Since you care about the fact that you may have a bogus phone number, try
doing the following (by hand, from a root shell):

lakart# usr/lib/uucp/uucico -sxait -x9 -r1

If there is a bad number for xait you will see it, because during the
dialing phase you get to see the whole conversation. I did this step
with all three of my outgoing links, to make sure that I wasn't going
to be whistling dixie up some innocent's phone at 1:25 in the morning.

			Yours,
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