upl@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Undergrad Projects Lab) (10/26/90)
In article <656603007@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes: [ ... ] >Basically, I have a ATT 3b1 3.51m running HDB uucp from THE STORE >connected to a SUN workstation SUNOS 4.1 running HDB uucp. I can >send files from the unix-pc to the sun without any problem but I can >never send files from the sun to the unix-pc. It doesn't matter who >initiates the connection, if the file is going from the unix-pc to >the sun it works. > >However, if it is going from the sun to the unix-pc, I always get errors. >The error in the /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/error looks like this >ASSERT ERROR (uucico) pid: 316 (10/17-11:39:48) PKXSTART ret (0) >[FILE: pk1.c, LINE: 331] Oh, my goodness, does this look familiar. I have yet to figure out what exactly is happening. Here are some facts, though. I have a unixpc running HDB retrieved from the store. I have 3 sites with which I regularly communicate via uucp. Only one of these three ever exhibits this problem. It is a site running 286 SCO Xenix. (One of the other sites is also a unixpc and the third is a 386 running ESIX - Everett's unix) My problem seems less deterministic than yours, though. This thing only happens when transferring really big files (>100k) It seems like the other site just decides to stop transmitting. Watching my modem lights confirms that. The other side just stops. Since this thing only happens intermittantly, I just attributed it to the other guy's uucp, and left it be. However, now it seems that it may very well be a bug with our implementation of HDB. If anyone has any tips on how to avoid this, please include me as a recipient of that info. As always, thanks, - sparkie P.S. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not reply to the account from which this has been posted. Instead, reply to: harier!sparkie@cs.wisc.edu Thanks.