igb@Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK (Ian G Batten) (04/21/89)
I feed a site which runs AIX 2.2 on IBM PC/RTs (6150) with their HoneyDanber. They call me. Today we lost a stack of mail being fetch from here by them. The error messages were Permission Denied for the calling end. The previous and subsequent calls went OK. All we can see "different" is that the call which lost had uucleanup running out of cron at about the same time. Is it a known problem to have uucleanup running during a call? ian -- Ian G Batten, BT Fulcrum - igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk - ...!uunet!ukc!fulcrum!igb
kurt@ibmarc.uucp (Kurt Shoens) (04/24/89)
In a recent append, igb@Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK (Ian G Batten) writes about problems with AIX 2.2 and HDB UUCP having problems with uucleanup running in parallel with a uucp call. I have experienced the same problem and can report much better results if you schedule uucleanup so that it never runs at the same time as a uucp call. Kurt Shoens, IBM Almaden Research Center, ...!uunet!ibmarc!kurt
crash@jc3b21.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards) (04/24/89)
From article <773@ks.UUCP>, by kurt@ibmarc.uucp (Kurt Shoens): > In a recent append, igb@Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK (Ian G Batten) writes about problems > with AIX 2.2 and HDB UUCP having problems with uucleanup running in parallel > with a uucp call. I have experienced the same problem and can report much > better results if you schedule uucleanup so that it never runs at the same > time as a uucp call. > > Kurt Shoens, IBM Almaden Research Center, ...!uunet!ibmarc!kurt Actually, it sounds to me like the uucleanup may be broken. If it's a shell script (and I think it is) it should be "fixable" :-) It seems to me (without looking at the script) the the Permission Denied message must be coming from trying to access a log-file or other on-again/off-again accessed file. The script probably appends the current days' log files to the weekly one, and then creates a new one. After the new one exists, the modes are set. If the uucico tries to access the file between creation and mode-setting there may be a permission conflict. I'll look into it and post again in a couple of days, hopefully with a fix for the script (if it is one). ---- Frank "Crash" Edwards ...!uunet!pdn!jc3b21!crash ---- Disclaimer: I work at home, and chances are my employer would rather I get off the phone so he can call me and give me work to do instead of my spending time replying to postings and writing e-mail. In other words, he doesn't know anything about this except that I'm tying up the phone line...