lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) (05/25/88)
If you are experiencing uucp problems with messages like 'xxxx1 host unknown' even though there is an entry in L.sys, this may be the problem: When there is a long line in the L.sys file, like: xxxx1 Any cua0 1200 cua0 "" AT\r OK-AT\r-OK \dATDP5551212\r CONNECT \r SERVICE?- \r-SERVICE? uucp connection \d "" BREAK "" \d\r\d\r login:-\r-login: Uhost asswo rd: aabbccddee then uux breaks and doesn't know of xxxx1 (test: mail xxxx1!user) (in fact uux doen't recognize any hosts in the L.sys file after the xxxx1 line). However, uuname and uucico both will work properly with xxxx1 I don't have the sources but my guess is that uux's internal buffer which holds lines read from L.sys is overflown. Correction: trim the line as much as possible, ie. change the response words like CONNECT to ECT, etc... and hope. Perhaps this is only a limitaion on sun's implementation of uucp. I'm running sunOS 3.5. -- "What is a DJ if he can't scratch?" - Uncle Jamms Army The views expressed are those of the author, and not of Visual Edge, nor Usenet. David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)