grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) (01/07/87)
In article <43032@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: >Yes, It's a bug. It was fixed in 4.3BSD. Here is a rough idea >of how it was fixed (Jim Bloom found and fixed this one). Part of the problem is that some person at DEC changed the timeouts in pkcget from 10 and 20 seconds to 25 and 30 seconds, in hopes of making things more robust. This actually increased the probability of the remote system timing out before the local system and encountering the underlying protocol problem. The following is a simple patch, applicable to ultrix 1.1 and 1.2, to reset the timeouts to the correct values: 1) you must be root (or the setuid bits will go away!) 2) uucico must not be running 3) you should know what you are doing... 4) copy the old uucico to some safe place 5) make sure the numbers match Script started on Wed Jan 7 03:21:27 198 # cd /usr/lib/uucp # cp uuico uucico.nopatch # adb -w uucico pkcget+57?x _pkcget+57: 19d0 ?w 0ad0 _pkcget+57: 19d0 = ad0 pkcget+5c?x _pkcget+5c: 1ed0 ?w 14d0 _pkcget+5c: 1ed0 = 14d0 # ^d script done on Wed Jan 7 03:24:39 198 This seems to have solved most of my problems, but I would be interested in any reports or comments. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)