earlier I wrote:
> I have a user in need of a version of UUX that will run under DU
> 3.2C. Without this UUCP just doesn't behave. Is there a copy of
> this somewhere or something comprable that will give this user the
> fix he needs?
I'd like to be more explicit, this problem has existed (under 2.0 now under 3.2)
for a while (the SA before me was working on it) and here is the *very* original post:
>uucp installed, remote system "tbomb" defined
>If I run the command: "uux - tbomb!rmail time", I get the
>following "C." file in the spool directory for the uucp system
>named "tbomb":
> S D.edsel0f5fa83 D.edsel0f5fa83 daemon - D.edsel0f5fa83 0666 daemon
> S rmail D.edsel0f5fa83 daemon - D.0 0666 daemon
> S D.tbomb5199a83 X.tbombN5198 daemon - D.tbomb5199a83 0666 daemon
>I would _expect_ to see the following:
> S D.edsel0f5fa83 D.edsel0f5fa83 daemon - D.edsel0f5fa83 0666 daemon
> S D.tbomb5199a83 X.tbombN5198 daemon - D.tbomb5199a83 0666 daemon
>The incorrect file has the second "S" line that attempts to send
>the file named "rmail" over to tbomb. If this job is allowed to
>be run by uucico, the second line causes an error _locally_ in
>uucico (tbomb's uucico never sees the S command).
>I showed the above to Peter Honeyman (the inventor of UUCP) and he concurred
>that it was broken. He provided the following code fragment:
>(void) fprintf(cfp, "S %s %s %s %s %s %o %s %s\n", file1, file2, User, Optns,
>dfile, stbuf.st_mode & 0777, Nuser, Sfile);
>So it really appears if uux is screwing up.
I don't know if this is clears things up or confuses them more. Any insights would be very
much appreciated.
Thanks.
Nicci
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Received on Tue Jul 30 1996 - 23:44:22 NZST