noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (N. Del More) (08/20/89)
I believe I may have discovered a bug in SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT's uucp. I have a connection whose system name is eight characters in length, however, uucp shortens the system name to seven characters, ie. any mail or files sent to "trashbin" are qued up as "trashbi". At any rate, this is causing consistent core dumps and communication failure (at least I am attributing them to this problem at this time). Has anyone else experianced this problem and is their a fix, patch or short term work around? Thanks! Noel
edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew) (08/22/89)
In article <106@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (N. Del More) writes: >I believe I may have discovered a bug in SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT's uucp. >I have a connection whose system name is eight characters in length, >however, uucp shortens the system name to seven characters, ie. any mail >or files sent to "trashbin" are qued up as "trashbi". I am aware of a certain limit imposed by some uucp systems, I will leave it to others to comment on this. This is probably not the problem (assuming you're talking about the prefix of the filenames in /usr/spool/uucp/<spooldir>). >At any rate, this is causing consistent core dumps and communication >failure (at least I am attributing them to this problem at this time). It is a know bug that the 2.3.2 uusched is slightly broken. While you haven't explicitely stated that you use 'uusched', most people do. If you are one of these, simply use custom to bring back the uusched from your 2.3.1 uucp distribution media (or tar if you prefer), and your core dumps should cease. Mine did. >Has anyone else experianced this problem and is their a fix, patch or >short term work around? I also understand that SCO will shortly have an SLF for this. Give them a call. >Thanks! >Noel Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@egvideo.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!egvideo!edhew ->home: changing to: edhew@xenitec.uucp [but be patient for new maps]