Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpfcla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: Re: what DFTXMIT for System V Rel 2? Message-ID: <27700001@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 23:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcla.27700001 Posted: Sun Sep 29 23:54:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 14:45:13 EDT References: <322@mot.UUCP> Organization: 29 Sep 85 21:54:00 MDT Lines: 14 > The -r option is present (but often undocumented) in every version > of UUCP I've ever seen. It says "don't start up a uucico now, wait > for it to get started from cron." Precisely. On really busy systems, you may wish to alter rmail so it runs uux -r, then kick off generic (no -s option) uucico's very frequently. The next step is to alter the uucico-starter so it doesn't start anything when the system is heavily loaded. And the next step is to give up... While you are at it, stick in a leading "exec" anywhere a command line is sent through sh(1), e.g. in your crontab, to prevent unnecessary processes wait(2)ing around. Good luck. Alan "every system is too busy" Silverstein, hpfcla!ajs