messer@cs.ubc.ca (Joerg Messer) (04/19/91)
I was wondering if someone with UUCP experience has seen the following problems whilst trying to get a UUCP/Mail connection setup. I've managed to get UUCP working, but I'm having problems trying to get sendmail to process the mail spool files once they've arrived on my NeXTstation. Mail files from the mail relay machine just end up in the X. and TM. directories without geting any further. Also, if I try to send mail using "mail -v", I get the following error messages. joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... Connecting to bdcsun via uucp... can't get working directory; will try to continue uux failed. code -1 joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... unknown mailer error 255 joerg/dead.letter... Sent I've checked the sendmail configuration and it appears to be forwarding things correctly. I've also played with the permissions on the UUCP spooling directories without getting anywhere. If anyone has any suggestions on how I might diagnose this little problem, I'd love to hear from you. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Joerg Messer joerg@bdc.ubc.ca Biosciences Data Centre 2204 Main Mall University of British Columbia Ph: (604) 228-6527 Vancouver, Canada, V6T 1W5 Fax: (604) 228-2416 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Joerg Messer joerg@bdc.ubc.ca Biosciences Data Centre 2204 Main Mall
JKIGHT@auvm.auvm.edu (Jeff Kight) (04/19/91)
======================================================================== 56 In article <1991Apr19.033813.29488@cs.ubc.ca>, you say: > > I was wondering if someone with UUCP experience has seen the following >problems whilst trying to get a UUCP/Mail connection setup. I've managed >to get UUCP working, but I'm having problems trying to get sendmail to >process the mail spool files once they've arrived on my NeXTstation. >Mail files from the mail relay machine just end up in the X. and TM. >directories without geting any further. Also, if I try to send mail >using "mail -v", I get the following error messages. > > joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... Connecting to bdcsun via uucp... > can't get working directory; will try to continue > uux failed. code -1 > joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... unknown mailer error 255 > joerg/dead.letter... Sent > >I've checked the sendmail configuration and it appears to be forwarding >things correctly. I've also played with the permissions on the UUCP >spooling directories without getting anywhere. If anyone has any >suggestions on how I might diagnose this little problem, I'd love >to hear from you. ok...we had the same prob...there seems to be a little discrepancy with how uucp handles domain names... if you look in the /usr/spool/uucp directory...you will notice something like bdc.ubcX... When uucp creates the spool directories, it uses the fullname (ie including domain) but when it references your host (ie to send/receive mail it goes with your definition of probably just bdc. So what happens is you have spool files based on the whole domain, but when it looks to add stuff based on the UUCP node name, it cant find an equivalent spool file... Now, if you have a machine with the name longer than 6 (I think) characters, you don't have the problem because its truncated after that... Anyhow...what should you do?...either change the node name or the uucp node name...after I did that...it worked fine... (ie sinai.umd.edu was giving spool files like sinai.uX, when I changed the node name to sinai (same thing in the L.sys) everything was fine) --- Jeff Kight jkight@auvm.auvm.edu University Computing Center jkight@auvm.bitnet The American University (202) 885-2281 Washington DC 20016-8019
jkight@is-next.umd.edu (Jeff Kight) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr19.033813.29488@cs.ubc.ca> messer@cs.ubc.ca (Joerg Messer) writes: > > I was wondering if someone with UUCP experience has seen the following >problems whilst trying to get a UUCP/Mail connection setup. I've managed >to get UUCP working, but I'm having problems trying to get sendmail to >process the mail spool files once they've arrived on my NeXTstation. >Mail files from the mail relay machine just end up in the X. and TM. >directories without geting any further. Also, if I try to send mail >using "mail -v", I get the following error messages. > > joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... Connecting to bdcsun via uucp... > can't get working directory; will try to continue > uux failed. code -1 > joerg@bdc.ubc.ca... unknown mailer error 255 > joerg/dead.letter... Sent > >I've checked the sendmail configuration and it appears to be forwarding >things correctly. I've also played with the permissions on the UUCP >spooling directories without getting anywhere. If anyone has any >suggestions on how I might diagnose this little problem, I'd love >to hear from you. ok...we had the same prob...there seems to be a little discrepancy with how uucp handles domain names... if you look in the /usr/spool/uucp directory...you will notice something like bdc.ubcX... When uucp creates the spool directories, it uses the fullname (ie including domain) but when it references your host (ie to send/receive mail it goes with your definition of probably just bdc. So what happens is you have spool files based on the whole domain, but when it looks to add stuff based on the UUCP node name, it cant find an equivalent spool file... Now, if you have a machine with the name longer than 6 (I think) characters, you don't have the problem because its truncated after that... Anyhow...what should you do?...either change the node name or the uucp node name...after I did that...it worked fine... (ie sinai.umd.edu was giving spool files like sinai.uX, when I changed the node name to sinai (same thing in the L.sys) everything was fine) --- Jeff Kight jkight@auvm.auvm.edu University Computing Center jkight@auvm.bitnet The American University (202) 885-2281 Washington DC 20016-8019