Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: 3B1 vs. 7300, uucp/mail Fight, Round One Message-ID: <9452@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 01:03:26 GMT References: <9377@cup.portal.com> <4825@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 23 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 Re: the 3B1 vs. 7300 Fight, Round One, it appears there WON'T be a Round Two! With many, MANY thanks to: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) who wrote: `` You can make the CALLER machine poll the HOST periodically using cron; causing a poll every half-hour or so is usually quite acceptable for directly connected machines. crontab entry: 08 * * * * /bin/su uucpadm -c "/usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr > /dev/null" /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr entry: rm -f /usr/spool/uucp/STST.${HOST} uucico -r1 -s${HOST} '' Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]