gregb@dowjone.UUCP (Gregory S. Baber) (08/22/89)
A few weeks ago, I posted a problem that I was having with Sun's uucp/L.sys setup in that I was getting "bad system name" when I ran uucp, even though the name was defined in the L.sys. Many people said that it was related to the system name "osu-cis" and specifically with the '-'. THAT WAS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem was that Sun's stock uucp can only handle 19 fields per system entry, and my chat script for osu-cis was too long. Ed Anselmo at Yale suggested a fix that works beautifully (Thanks, Ed). The fix is to put the line: sysname NEVER BEFORE the offending line. Whenever you dial the sysname, the first will fail and uucp will fall through to the second, which will work. The original posting: >Hello, I have a problem that's driving me crazy! I have an L.sys entry that >looks like: > >osucis Any cub 19200 cub "" +++\dATZ\r OK-+++\dATZ\r-OK A\dA\dAT\r\c OK-AT\r\c -OK-AT\r\c-OK ATX1S50=3\r OK ATDT9,16142923124\r 2400 \r "" \r\c Name? osu-cis nected \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon > >I'm trying to get to Ohio State. Whenever I run the command: > >uucp osucis!~/GNU.how-to-get /usr/tmp > >I get the error: > >bad system name: osucis > >I'm running on a Sun 3-50 with SunOS 3.5. I'm using a Telebit Trailblazer+. > >No matter what I try, I get the bad system name error. I checked permissions >on all of the files and directories. Can someone suggest some things that I >haven't tried? The uuname command returns: > >osucis > >The L.sys entry works with uucico. What gives??? The L.sys file now looks like: osu-cis NEVER osu-cis Any cub 19200 cub "" +++\dATZ\r OK-+++\dATZ\r-OK A\dA\dAT\r\c OK-AT\r\c -OK-AT\r\c-OK ATX1S50=3\r OK ATDT9,16142923124\r 2400 \r "" \r\c Name? osu-cis nected \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon ... and it works like a charm. -- Reply to: Gregory S. Baber Voice: (609) 520-5077 Dow Jones & Co., Inc. UUCP: ..princeton!dowjone!gregb Box 300 or ..uunet!dowjone!gregb Princeton, N.J. 08543-0300 "So long, and thanks for all the fish"