Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100

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5 total messages Started by Brad Parker Mon, 27 Jan 1986 14:39

#535

Author: Brad Parker
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1986 14:39

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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
-- 

J Bradford Parker
seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!brad

"I want to go up to Detroit
 I want to lie in the shade
 I want to visit the President
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Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100

#536

Author: Drew Sullivan
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1986 13:37

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In article <453@gcc-milo.ARPA> brad@gcc-bill.UUCP (Brad Parker) writes:
>"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
-- 
  -- Drew.

Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100

#538

Author: William L. Sebok
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

Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100

#541

Author: john
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1986 16:43

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Is rmail linked to mail?

		John Ebersold
		ihnp4!convex!ctvax!trsvax!doc!wvlpdp

Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100

#546

Author: Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1986 01:29

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In article <1600001@wvlpdp>, john@wvlpdp.UUCP writes:
> 
> Is rmail linked to mail?
It's not linked to anything on my system.  (I am running ROS 3.3 a system V
derivative on a Ridge 32C).
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