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
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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]