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Article #538Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100
From: William L. Sebok
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1986 05:22
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1986 05:22
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>>"Trouble with UUCP on SUN-100; uuxqt won't run anything"
>From you site name I see that it could be the same problem I ran into.
>The Makefile for UUCP (4.2) that creates the directories in
>/usr/spool/uucp/{C.,D.,D.<site>,D.<site>X,TM.,X.,XTMP} doesn't truncate
>the <site> in D.<site> and D.<site>X names to 7 characters. UUCP and
>all other uu programs do. I had exactly the same problem and fixed
>everthing by a simple rename of the two offending directories.
>Hope this helps.
> -- Drew Sullivan. utzoo!yetti!utrc-2at!drews
When I was running 4.2 BSD uucp I solved it different way, by removing
the stupid 7 character limit on site names.
--
Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics
{allegra,akgua,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,philabs,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100 Message-ID: <728@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 00:22:27 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.728 Posted: Sun Feb 2 00:22:27 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 06:04:38 EST References: <453@gcc-milo.ARPA> <213@utrc-2at.UUCP> Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 16