[comp.mail.uucp] a solution to "bad system name" problem

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.

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