UUCP problems between HDB UUCP and XENIX UUCP

[Clif Flynt]

In article <7835 at ncoast.UUCP> mikes at ncoast.UUCP (Mike Squires) writes:
>Tandy 6000 under 68K XENIX 3.2 (3.0 development system) will fail in the way
>described (connection dropped after startup) when the first task queued is a
>uucp file copy.  Sending a piece of mail "solves" the problem.  This has occurred
>between the 6000 and systems that I know to be running HDB and those that I
>suspect to be running HDB.  It appears only when the 6000 is polling the HDB
>system, and not vice versa.
>
>Mike Squires Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335 814 724 3360
>uucp: ..!mandrill!ncoast!{mikes,peng!sir-alan!mikes} or ..!pitt!sir-alan!mikes
>BITNET: mikes%sir-alan at pitt.UUCP (VAX) MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM)
>known in the SCA as Sir Alan Culross, Earl Marshall of the Middle Kingdon

I had similar problems when I was first setting up my uport HDB system,
and trying to get all my old programs off my Tandy M16.  I could only
transfer stuff if the HDB system initiated the transfer.

When you call in to a HDB system, the stuff in the Permissions file is
checked a lot more thoroughly than when you call out.  (Like, I don't 
know if it's checked at all when a HDB system calls out.)

The system you call should have a setup something like this for your
system in it's Permissions file.  If you don't, then you'll have trouble
talking unless they call you. 

	LOGNAME=uuname \
        MACHINE=system_name \	
        REQUEST=yes READ=/usr/spool/uucppublic WRITE=/usr/spool/uucppublic \
        COMMANDS=rmail:rnews \
        SENDFILES=yes

Hope this helps...
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