harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) (07/18/89)
I like to have uucp mail forwarded to me, in case things go wrong. However, since changing from ukuucp (2.0) to Sun uucp (release 4.0.1, sorry, don't know the uucp version), I've had TWO mail messages for every call of uucico (even when there's NO WORK) and a further two for every call of uuxqt whenever there's mail or news. That's a couple of hundred a day, and I'm getting sore fingies. I've put `-z' flags in sendmail.cf where uux is called, just to be sure, but that doesn't make any difference, but since I get it when there's no work, that's not surprising. Soo, am I stuck with this mail, or is there a secret flag I can set? I tried editing the uucico binary to replace the reference to /bin/mail with /bin/something-four-chars-long (which echoed the args to a file), but unbelievably, this didn't work!!! But that's by the by. I don't really want to write a filter to `mail -f /usr/spool/mail/uucp' to delete all entries with message uuxqt cmd () status (exit 0, signal 0) so I'm stuck with ploughing through the pointless reminders that its attempts to do nothing were a complete success!!!
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/18/89)
In article <HARRY.89Jul17194133@marvin.moncam.co.uk> harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) writes: >... since changing from ukuucp (2.0) to Sun uucp (release 4.0.1, >sorry, don't know the uucp version), I've had TWO mail messages for >every call of uucico (even when there's NO WORK) and a further two for >every call of uuxqt whenever there's mail or news. ... > >uuxqt cmd () status (exit 0, signal 0) Remove the X. and XTMP directories from /usr/spool/uucp/uucico. The Sun UUCP does not understand subdirectories, and thinks that these are work requests. It performs them, then unlinks them (which of course fails). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
rwright@novavax.UUCP (Ronald K. Wright) (07/20/89)
In article <HARRY.89Jul17194133@marvin.moncam.co.uk> harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) writes: >I like to have uucp mail forwarded to me, in case things go wrong. >However, since changing from ukuucp (2.0) to Sun uucp (release 4.0.1, >sorry, don't know the uucp version), I've had TWO mail messages for >every call of uucico (even when there's NO WORK) and a further two for >every call of uuxqt whenever there's mail or news. I found most of this was coming from some programs called /usr/lib/uucp/uuclean and /usr/lib/uucp/uuadm which are run out of crontab. These programs are shell scripts and can be easily modified to change their behavior. Try examining roots crontab file, and see if the times of the messages match the times that the uuclean scripts are run. If they do, you found your culprit. If not, well good luck. :=) rkw