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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help with UUCP
Message-ID: <789@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Mon, 29-Dec-86 20:51:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 29 20:51:30 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Dec-86 05:35:47 EST
References: <2051@brl-adm.ARPA>
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Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Keywords: uucp debugging uucico

In article <2051@brl-adm.ARPA> kvancamp@ARDEC.arpa (Kenneth Van Camp -FSAC-) writes:
 ...
>  /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystem
>This works very nicely the first time I try it, and it has helped 
>immeasureably in troubleshooting my send/expect pairs in the L.sys file.  
>Unfortunately, this command only works once; the second time I get the error 
>message: 
>  RETRY TIME (3300) NOT REACHED
>which I can only get rid of by rebooting the system (or so it seems).

rm the file "/usr/spool/uucp/STST.systemname", which contains the date and
time of the last attempted call to "systemname".

>... does anyone know what the -r1 does?

The -r1 flag sets your "role" to "master".  In a UUCP connection, there
is a "master" who initiates the call, and the "slave", who doesn't.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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