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"Trouble with UUCP on SUN-100; uuxqt won't run anything"

I've sent this request out before, but with no good responces. This time I'll
include everything I've tried - please don't suggest the obvious (such as
checking L.cmds)

I have a sun-100 running V1.3 software. I can uucp files back and forth with
our BSD4.2 (Mt. Xinu) VAX with no problem, but rmail and rnews refuse to
work on the sun. I've tried playing with L.cmds, I've set all the ownerships
and permissions correct (I hope) and still nothing. Here is what I can get on
the console:

in LOGFILE: "root gcc-mil (1/19-22:36-133) brad XQT DENIED (rmail brad)"

To test I send 10 pieces of mail from the VAX to the sun, run uucp manually on
the sun, and kill the uuxqt just as it starts up automagically. After a bit of
clean up, I run uuxqt as root, with -x9 (i.e. cd /usr/lib/uccp; uuxqt -x9)

The console dumps out the contents of L.cmds (which contains rmail) and
the interesting lines are:

<dump of L.cmds>
...
F <some uucp file name>
I <some uucp file name>
C rmail brad
fin - /usr/spool/uucp/D.gcc-milB0pp2, fout - /dev/null, sysout -
gcc-sun, user - brad
cmd - rmail brad
bad command
...
<more of the same, for each X. file>

The interesting part is that in the source reads ("bad command %s", pre)
or similar. I only had time for a quick peek on a friend's system; I couldn't
spend the time to really figure out the possible failure modes to cause this.
(strings confirms this on my system)

Any idea what is causing this? Please don't suggest source code changes,
we're a binary only licence. If this is a code bug, I'll send hate mail
to sun ;-) (they've actually have been very nice!)

Thanks for any help.

brad parker
general computer
harvard!gcc-milo!brad
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J Bradford Parker
seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!brad

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