UUCP problems between HDB UUCP and XENIX UUCP

[Mike Squires]

In article <223 at diox> eric at diox (Eric Pouyoul) writes:
>I have to connect with UUCP two systems. One is a 286 running
>IBM XENIX, witch have some UUCP link with other systems, like VAXs under
>BSD 4.3 and some *UNIX* systems.
>
>The second machine is a Motorola under a native System V.3 release 4.
>With this package, UUCP is the famous HDB UUCP. I have a little documentation
>to configure this UUCP, but, when XENIX call the Motorola, all is ok, but
>nothing done after the "shere= ..." message.
>
This may not be the answer to your specific problem, but I have found that my
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
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BITNET: mikes%sir-alan at pitt.UUCP (VAX) MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM)
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