jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (11/11/87)
Well, I got lots of answers to my last question saying that you can
have multiple L.sys/Systems entries for a machine, and each will be
tried until one succeeds. On re-reading several uucp manuals, I did
verify that the older ones made no mention of this (as far as I could
determine). My BNU (honey/danber) manual actually does mention it;
now that I understand what it means, I can recognize that it did tell
me. I just didn't understand it when I first read it.
Anyhow, since I got such a good response from that question, I'll ask
another. I've noticed that when the BNU uucico makes a series of calls,
it tries each one twice. Naturally, if one fails the first time, it
almost always fails the second time. I've read things in the manual
about how you can specify all sorts of limits (time between calls,
number of uuxqts at a time, and so on), but I haven't found any mention
of this double calling. Is this a configurable parameter? I'd just
as well have it not do it, but simply give up and go on to the next
task. Anyone out there know if this 2 can be changed?
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John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)