Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:454 comp.dcom.modems:1129 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems Subject: PC Pursuit crackdown on "concurrent sessions" Message-ID: <3603@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 11 Dec 87 20:17:11 GMT Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 24 PC Pursuit canceled my account a week or so ago because they found a bunch of times when the account was in use for multiple sessions. Their terms&conditions specifically prohibit this. It happened because I talk to multiple sites via PC Pursuit and have several outdial modems. To fix it, I have changed my L-devices and L.sys entries so that only a single outdial modem will be used for PCP calls. To do this, I changed L.sys from saying "ACU" to "ACUHAYESpcp", and added an "ACUHAYESpcp" line to L-devices that only covers one dialer rather than three. This is the same way the uucp manual recommends setting up for a WATS line. If for some reason that line is already in use (inbound or outbound) then I won't be able to call out on PCP, but until gnuucp can be improved to handle this sort of locking in a better way, it's the best I can do. I recommend that you fix this ASAP if you are using PCP. They gave me another account without trouble, but said that if it happens again it is unlikely. They are trying to weed out the folks who got one PCP account and gave it to all their friends. And, when I call through them multiple times, I'm using more than my fair share of dialers. -- {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "Watch me change my world..." -- Liquid Theatre