[comp.unix.sysv386] what does this error message mean?

mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) (01/11/91)

hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem
software: ISC 3.2.2
problem: uucico failing on large file transfer.

my feed is sending news (or some large file(s)).
at some point after 1000 blocks or so, the connection is broken,
the large TM.* file disappears, and the following is appended to
/usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucico/name-of-feed:

uucp calgary  (1/10-3:53:05,11577,0) OK (startup)
uucp calgary  (1/10-3:53:05,11577,0) REMOTE REQUESTED (calgary!D.fsa20ca38d -->
 vort!D.fsa20ca38d (news))
news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete)
 ...

does anybody have any idea what it means, and more important, what i
can do to fix it?

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woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (01/12/91)

In article <1991Jan10.190614.1232@vort.uucp> mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes:
> hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem
> software: ISC 3.2.2
> problem: uucico failing on large file transfer.
> news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
> news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete)

It means the other end dropped the line on you, probably because the
job you sent was too big for their ULIMIT.
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							Greg A. Woods
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deraadt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (deraadt) (01/14/91)

woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>  mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>  > hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem
>  > software: ISC 3.2.2
>  > problem: uucico failing on large file transfer.
>  > news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
>  > news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete)
>
>   It means the other end dropped the line on you, probably because the
>  job you sent was too big for their ULIMIT.

Nope. calgary does not have any sort of ulimit. SunOS4.1.1. No quotas on
that 280M total/150M free partition. I should know, as calgary ==
cpsc.ucalgary.ca. vort has fairly large ulimit for uucp as well..
 <tdr.

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weyrich (Dr. Orville R. Weyrich) (01/14/91)

In article <1991Jan11.233546.2800@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>In article <1991Jan10.190614.1232@vort.uucp> mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>> hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem
>> software: ISC 3.2.2
>> problem: uucico failing on large file transfer.
>> news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
>> news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete)
>
>It means the other end dropped the line on you, probably because the
>job you sent was too big for their ULIMIT.
>-- 


I had the same thing happen at approximately the same time. My log shows that
I was RECIEVING from uunet. I did not have any large stuff queued for outgoing.

I tend to suspect that maybe the missing part 2 of groff was the culprit?
It seems that this was posted at about the same time.

Note: I am NOT an expert on net-news -- my node has been up less than a month.
This is the only time I have experienced this.

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