mcmahon@ge (Jack McMahon) (04/17/91)
I have been attempting to get uucp to work over Ethernet between two HP 9000/4xx machines running HP-UX 7.05 and using the vtdaemon as described in the 7.0 manuals. I can use Uutry and get a successful connection in about one in every three or four tries. Most of the time I don't get the login prompt. I've tried numerous variations of the chat script, but the success rate is low and essentially unusable. I have noticed that the vtdaemon issues a "vt -u /dev/ieee" to the remote system. When I issue this command, I indeed have trouble getting the login prompt. If I use vt <nodename>, I get "login:" every time. Software status bulletins on the HP LaserROM that I have seem to indicate that there may be problems with this. Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any alternatives to using the vtdaemon? Ultimately, I want workstations to be able to uucp files from UUNET via a server, i.e. "uucp ge!uunet!~/<file> ." Many thanks for all replies. -- ***************************************************************************** * Jack McMahon, Sr. Design Engineer * UUNET: ..!ge!mcmahon * * GE Information Services * * * 401 N. Washington St. MC03D * PHONE: 301-340-5166 * * Rockville, MD 20850 * GE DIAL COMM: 273-5166 * *****************************************************************************
ken@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Kenneth M. Sumrall) (04/22/91)
>I have been attempting to get uucp to work over Ethernet between two >HP 9000/4xx machines running HP-UX 7.05 and using the vtdaemon as >described in the 7.0 manuals. I can use Uutry and get a successful >connection in about one in every three or four tries. Most of the >time I don't get the login prompt. I've tried numerous variations of >the chat script, but the success rate is low and essentially unusable. >I have noticed that the vtdaemon issues a "vt -u /dev/ieee" to the >remote system. When I issue this command, I indeed have trouble >getting the login prompt. If I use vt <nodename>, I get "login:" >every time. > I noticed this too when I tried to get my 370 talking to my 500. I did notice that when I upped the nice value of vtdaemon, the problem seemed to go away, i.e., try "/bin/nice --19 /etc/vtdaemon". This is not an official workaround, but just something I noticed. Hope it helps you. >Many thanks for all replies. > Your Welcome. | Ken Sumrall | Internet: ken%hpda@hplabs.hp.com | | HP California Language Labs | UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!ken | | "I'd stomp desert dope heads for some gas in my moped!" - Bill the Cat | | "What a stupid world" -Calvin (speaking to Hobbes) |