bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (07/19/88)
This certainly isn't about uucp mail, nor is it in the core of system
administration, but I didn't know where else to ask. I'm using HDB
uucp on a '286 no-name clone and I have a problem with uustat, maybe
someone can tell me where else to look.
I run the cleanup script each day, pretty much unchanged from the
stock script as distributed. Last week (today is Monday, I think
it was Wednesday) I was puttering around and decided to see if rutgers'
shiny new Sun 4 was any different from their old system. I had a
problem sending into the old one. The uucico session got wedged and
so I killed the process and scrapped the files I was going to send and
sent them another way. Now, several days later, after everything has had
plenty of time to get out of the uucp directories I still get
rutgers Locked
in my uustat -m display. There's nothing in .Admin, .Status, .Log, .Old,
or any of the directories that have anything to do with rutgers. I even
went so far as to delete rutgers from .Sequence but I can't get rid of
that status line. Where is it coming from? If it's someplace in the
/usr/spool/uucp heirarchy I'll just go fall on my sword because I have not
found it. Many thanks for your wisdom, where should I have posted this
anyway?
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Bill Kennedy Internet: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM
Usenet: { killer | att | rutgers | uunet!bigtex }!ssbn!billjhc@att.ATT.COM (Jonathan Hawbrook-Clark) (07/20/88)
In article <126@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes: >After polling rutgers and killing the process I still get >rutgers Locked >in my uustat -m display. Where is it coming from? Betcha you've got a file /usr/spool/locks/LCK..rutgers. It might be in /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..rutgers, but you say that you've checked there. It's the machine's lockfile. If you poll rutgers again with debug on then you'll see it testing the lockfile for validity (there's a PID inside it) and then deleting it and creating a new one. comp.mail.uucp was 'the right choice'... (sorry, couldn't resist). -- Jonathan Clark jonathan@mtune.att.com, attmail!jonathan Any affiliation is given for identification purposes only. The Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.