david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (10/05/85)
A site in town is wanting to get attached to Usenet but is having trouble getting their uucp to login on our Vax. His machine is a 750 running VMS 4.x with the latest version of unity. Our machine is also a 750 running BRL release 3 (4.2BSD). He is able to get uucico to use the modem protocol to dial the phone but is unable to get anything to work reliably after that. He will SOMETIMES see our login prompt and sometimes not. And of those times he is only SOMETIMES be able to actually get logged in. And if he ever logs in then the uucico protocol doesn't get started right. If this were a unix system I'd be saying that there was a getty on the line and the two processes are fighting over who can read the characters. Is there a similar process on vms? Can anybody offer any suggestions? -- David Herron, ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA, cbosgd!ukma!david (Soon -- david@UKMA.BITNET, and (hopefully) david@ukma.csnet) Hackin's in me blood! My mother was known as Miss Hacker before she married!
glenn@uel (Glenn Wright ) (10/08/85)
> > If this were a unix system I'd be saying that there was a getty on the > line and the two processes are fighting over who can read the characters. > Is there a similar process on vms? > Indeed, the Unity system will use the VMS terminal driver. In the case of a normal terminal line it is the VMS terminal handler which logs you into DCL, which is the command line interpreter. In turn DCL will either run the Unix shell or will give the user the login prompt. When it comes to running uucp you will need to get VMS to remove the "login:" sequence on an outgoing line. I believe this can be done via a SET TERMINAL command. Try this, but I'm not really sure if this is your problem. -- Glenn Wright ============ UNIX Europe Limited, tel: +44 1 785-6972 27A Carlton Drive, fax: +44 1 785-6916 London SW15 2BS, UK telex:914054 UNIXTM {mcvax!ukc!}uel!glenn