Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!cvedc!mcspdx!bill From: bill@mcspdx.UUCP (Bill Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Limiting number of uucp retries for failed connections Keywords: uucp failure retries Message-ID: <242@mcspdx.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 23:29:00 GMT Organization: Motorola Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR Lines: 20 Does anybody know of a method to restrict the *number* of times uucp will retry a line which fails to connect? I can see options for the retry *interval*, restrictions for when to call etc, in the schedule field of Systems (or L.sys), but I have never found anything to stop systems making lots of calls when a remote goes down. It appears that the chat script will be tried twice on a failure, then the hourly daemon will try the system until the retry count is reached or the job is cleaned up by something else. Problem is - this retry count is fixed and it seems to be large! It would be handy to find an option which specified the maximum # of attempts to be made to contact a remote system - one could set it high for local connections, low for long distance etc. Maybe someone has come up with a cron script which performs this function? We are a System V shop, running various flavours of Release 3 with HDB (BNU). -- Bill Jackson Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division bill@pdx.csd.mot.com . . . tektronix!nosun!cvedc!mcspdx!bill Voice: (503) 643 6247 . . . . . uunet!apple!motcsd!mcspdx!bill