boyce@daemen.UUCP (Buck Wheat) (03/22/85)
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We at Daemen College, have a little problem with our
"Dual Systems 83/20 Uniplus+ V7". It involves root access or noaccess.
We have a uucp connection between it and a VAX 11/750. The Vax calls the dual
and sometimes gets a read fail error for some strange reasonm but that's not
the real problem. The uucico stays alive on the dual and can't be killed, yes
unix people even root can't kill it. The only solution is to wait for it
to die itself, which can take up from 10 minutes to 9 hours, or shutdown the
system.
Has any body out had the same problem with Unisoft Unix or does
anybody out there at Unisoft know how we can correct the problem??????
Doug Boyce
Daemen College,
Amherst, New York 14226
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{decvax,burdvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath,rocksvax,mit-ems}!sunybcs!daemen!boyceroot@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (03/26/85)
] User complains that uucico hangs and won't die even after a kill Just a guess but this often happens when a process gets caught in an open on a line with no DTR/CD or some such. Try the following to verify: send it a kill and then unplug the line and plug in a Null modem which has DTR jumpered (or maybe just dial the modem from a plain terminal.) See if it doesn't instantly upon connect act as if the kill was heard. General fix, I dunno, could try wrapping the open with a alarm() but even that might not get through. Behavior like this can also occur if the line is ^S'd. No combination of stty > /dev/ttyxx will work because it will hang when the shell tries to open. -Barry Shein, Boston University P.S. It is also possible you have hardware problems but not likely.