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Article #28Calling UUCP with -Xn option for debug
From: Tanner Andrews
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1986 01:06
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1986 01:06
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If you are using UUCP with xenix 3.0(up through 3.0b at least) you will probably encounter this when someone is trying to UUCP to your site for the first time. Repeat by: Set up a correct system entry to call someone running xenix uucp. Pick a line and condition it for output as required. Use the command uucico -r1 -Ssysname -X9 This should provide debugging information. Problem is that the "-X9" information is passed along to the called system. If the called system is a xenix system, it will start the remote uucico with the debug flag, and the remote system will mix the diagnostics with the uucp handshake and such. Horrible confusion is a result, which is why I like the helpful diag msg in the remote (xenix) system's logfile: uucp xsys (mm/dd-hh:mm) CAUGHT (SIGNAL 1) Where "uucp" = uucp login, "xsys" = name of xenix system, and date-time are within the parens. This is particularly pernicious, because it appears when you most need for things to work right: when you are setting up and testing a connection for the first time! Fix: Determine whether any system to which you are about to establish a link is a xenix system. If you are a xenix system to which someone is trying to establish a link, warn them. If uucico is invoked without the debugging (no -Xn), it works OK. If this problem has appeared elsewhere, I would be interested in hearing of it by mail please. -- <std dsclm, copies upon request> Tanner Andrews, KI4PV uucp: ...!decvax!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ki4pv.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Calling UUCP with -Xn option for debug Message-ID: <7024@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 20:06:50 EST Article-I.D.: ki4pv.7024 Posted: Thu Jan 2 20:06:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 04:43:24 EST Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 36 Keywords: xenix