ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (01/24/85)
About once a week, our site gets from hplabs an X. file targeted for
another site, with no corresponding D. file. Anyone know what could
cause this? I believe that the commands to be executed by uux were
those associated with news.
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
UUCP: {amd,decwrl,nsc,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken
ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPAdave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (01/25/85)
This probably isn't the particular problem referred to, but
I just fixed a bug that caused mail addressed through "utcsrgv"
to go out (sometimes) via "utcs". utzoo!henry referred me to the fix; I'm
sure it's been over the net before. If you have an old uucp
(like v7), and talk to two sites with names identical up to
the first one's '\0', you need the fix.
It's in anlwrk.c, function gtwrk(). The line beginning if(!prefix should read:
if (!prefix(pre, filename) || strlen(filename)-strlen(pre) != 5)
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{utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave
{allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!davemp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (01/31/85)
Some versions of uucp exhibit this bug when uucico is started up in the
"prowl around for work" mode. If a file transfer (say, of a D. file)
fails, uucico will go on to the next system that needs to be serviced,
but may keep one of the previous system's workfiles open, so the new system
may get files intended for the first system (e.g. an X. file).
honey-dan-ber detects this problem ("attempt made to use old workfile was thwarted").
Mark