UUCP to control a Modem

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2 total messages Started by William Gilbert Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:36

#851

Author: William Gilbert
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:36

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I want to turn the AutoAnswer feature of my modem on and off at given
times.

I can do it using UUCP, except that I can't finish the UUCP connection
cleanly; it just times out.
I have the following in my crontab.local:
	30 18 * * 1-5 uucp uupoll ModemOn
and I have the following in my L.sys file:
	ModemOn Any DIR 2400 cua \
	"" AT \
	OK ATS0=2 \
	OK ATS0? \
	002 ""
I don't know how to end this file so uucico will shut down cleanly.
Debugging shows that uucico is looking for input:
	root ModemOn (8/17-15:16-258) SUCCEEDED (call to ModemOn )
	imsg looking for SYNC<

	OK
	root ModemOn (8/17-15:17-258) TIMEOUT (ModemOn)

Any suggestions?

+------------------------------------------------------+
 Will Gilbert,  Pure Math Dept,  University of Waterloo
 wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca  [NeXT mail welcome]
 wgilbert@math.UWaterloo.ca

Re: UUCP to control a Modem

#877

Author: Brian Willoughby
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:58

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William Gilbert writes
| I want to turn the AutoAnswer feature of my modem on and off at given
| times.
| 
| I can do it using UUCP, except that I can't finish the UUCP connection
| cleanly; it just times out.
| I have the following in my crontab.local:
| 	30 18 * * 1-5 uucp uupoll ModemOn
| and I have the following in my L.sys file:
| 	ModemOn Any DIR 2400 cua \
| 	"" AT \
| 	OK ATS0=2 \
| 	OK ATS0? \
	ABORT OK \
| 	002 ""
| I don't know how to end this file so uucico will shut down cleanly.

I am by no means a UUCP expert, but I think that adding the ABORT line which I  
have inserted above might do the trick.  You could also try "	ABORT 002 \".   
You probably won't need the last line after you add the ABORT.

I was hanging until timeout on all BUSY calls (they were admittedly rare)  
before I added ABORT BUSY as the first line of my chat script.

Drawback: You will get a failure message in your LOGFILE and in the summary  
generated by uucp.day.sh
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	SoundSoftware
NeXTmail welcome

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