Why won't uucp dial out?

govern at houxf.UUCP govern at houxf.UUCP
Thu Jul 7 08:39:03 AEST 1983


I can't get uucp to work on my 4.1BSD system.  The hardware is OK
(i.e. works on USG), and I can use cu without much trouble.
Uucp will accept calls from other systems, and will put files in
queue to be transmitted when polled.  But it won't dial out by
itself;  I get BAD LINE errors from somewhere.

Here's a transcript of what happens:

	$ echo hello | mail houxm!houxf!govern
	$ uucico -r1 -x9 -shouxm
	gdial called
	AERROR - (nr == 4) BAD LINE #exit code -1

	$ cd /usr/spool/uucp
	$ ls -lt
	-rw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp       104 Jul  6 17:59 C.houxmA1251
	-rw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp       124 Jul  6 17:59 D.houxmB1250
	-rw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp        61 Jul  6 17:59 D.hoscfX1248
	-rw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp    178309 Jul  6 17:27 LOGFILE
	-rw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp         0 Jul  6 17:26 AUDIT

	cd /dev

crw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp    25,  0 Jul  6 10:42 cua0
crw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp    25,  1 Jul  5 11:47 cua1
crw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp     1, 11 Jul  6 10:46 cul0
crw-rw-rw- 1 nuucp     1, 12 Jul  5 12:01 cul1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root      7,  0 Mar 25 11:47 dn0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root      7,  1 Mar 16 18:38 dn1


$ cd /usr/lib/uucp
$ grep houxm L.sys
houxm Any ACU 1200 HOg7782 in:--in: THELOGIN word: THEPASSWORD

$ cat L-devices
ACU cul1 cua1 1200
ACU cul0 cua0 1200

$ cat L-dialcodes
HOg 123-

Is there something I'm missing?  When I first got my BSD system ( I
borrowed a working copy rather than booting from the tape.) there
was a "/usr/lib/dnd" that turned /dev/cua0 into some sort of mpx
file from /etc/rc, but it didn't work then either.

			Help!
			Thanks;  Bill Stewart  houxf!govern
				ucbvax!ihnp4!houxf!govern
				BTL HO 4M-428 x0705



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