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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: More on Polling and uusched
Message-ID: <3000@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Mar 90 18:49:14 GMT
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>Can't do it.  Whenever uucp(1) or uux(1) queue up a job they will
>kick off a uucico to handle it.  The uucico program finds that it's
>not allowed to call and logs the reason the attempt failed.  You
>don't really want it to fail silently, regardless of the reason.

Uh, yes, I do; that's why, at one place, I modified "uucico" to
specifically know about "Never" (or maybe I called it "Slave" or
something) and not bother to let me know something I already *did* know,
namely that we never call them, they just call us.  It *might* be OK to
log it for attempts to call outside of off-peak hours, say, but
repeatedly logging the fact that it's the wrong time to call when it's
never the *right* time to call (because there *is* no time to call,
period) seems not to give any useful information.