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Date: Sun 02-Dec-1990 08:52:21 From: mortlepp@veeble.north.de (Martin Ortlepp) Subject: uucp problems Hi, I have some problems with uucp on my NeXTcube. Everytime I tried to call other systems the login procedure didn't work coorectly. After my system sends name and password it looks for a sync (imsg looking for SYNC). And thats all, nothing happens. What does this mean ? I'm using software release 1.0a. Regards, Martin
Date: Sun 06-Dec-1990 05:19:09 From: doug@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Douglas A. Scott) Subject: Re: uucp problems In article <1990Dec2.085221.10254@veeble.north.de> mortlepp@veeble.north.de (Martin Ortlepp) writes: >Hi, > >I have some problems with uucp on my NeXTcube. Everytime I >tried to call other systems the login procedure didn't work >coorectly. After my system sends name and password it looks >for a sync (imsg looking for SYNC). And thats all, nothing happens. >What does this mean ? I'm using software release 1.0a. I had this exact problem, and spent weeks trying to solve it, thinking it was a UUCP problem. The answer was embarrassingly simple: the remote machine does not know you. Your machine's UUCP name and pass- word are either missing or incorrect in the remote machine's /etc/passwd file. The way to double check this is to log in by hand, and see if your login and password get you on (you of course cannot do anything once logged on, since your shell is uucico!). If you have tried this and you CAN log on by hand, then the only other problem I know of is your "expect-send" protocol in your L.sys file. Remember that every string sent will have a <cr> attached to it unless you specifically ask it not to (with \c). If you tell it to expect "ogin:", and then give it an extra <cr>, the remote will think your password is <cr>. The expect-send should look something like: "" "" ogin:--ogin--ogin: uudork ssword: foobar with no entries between the login name and the password other than the "ssword:" expect string. You may have a bit more stuff preceding the "ogin:" expect string, though, depending on your modem and site. The new documentation about UUCP (available from the NeXT archives) is very complete, and explains all this stuff about as clearly as something as obscure as this can be explained. Good luck.
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