Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!xxx.dec.com!draper From: draper@xxx.dec.com (11-Dec-1987 1321) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: problems with vanilla v3.51 uucp on 3b1 Message-ID: <8712111822.AA04054@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 11 Dec 87 21:21:00 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 45 as the subject said, i've got the vanilla uucp system installed (obligatory wish for hdb . . . ) i'm able to contact systems ok thru ph0 and the OBM. a direct connection thru tty000 across a null-modem cable is another story, tho. i've got a cable running from the 3b1 to a dec pro380 (pdp11/70) running venix 5.0 (sys5.2.0). the pro has getty running on the serial port, and i'm able to connect and login in fine from the 3b1 using cu. the 3b1 L.sys entry is thepro Any tty000 9600 tty000 ogin:--ogin:-- nuucp similarly, on the pro, the USERFILE entry is nuucp,giff / (the 3b1 is named giff, the pro380 is thepro.) i can queue jobs on the 3b1 for the pro380 w/o a problem. unfortunately, when uucico starts up, it immediately fails on the connection. the message in /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE is something like . . . . DIRECT WRITE TO TTY000 FAILED (TIMEOUT) i really don't know where to go from here. i've tried manually starting uucico up with a -x4 debug level, but i don't understand all the messages and i still don't understand why it's failing. i'd appreciate any and all suggestions; i'll summarize email responces. btw: am i being incompetant, or were the man entries for uucp/uux/uupick/uusend/uustat/uuclean/uucico and the one "high-level" chapter in the programmer's manual the only information about uucp in the 3.51 doc set??? if so,i see no excuse for that. i realize this is a "user-friendly" system with menu's for editting the L[.-]* files, but a few pages on the file formats should be in the docs. i had to go the the docs on another system to understand them. bruce draper draper@tallis.dec.com