Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:21:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jos Backus <jos@oce.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem getting UUCP to talk to SCO UNIX Message-ID: <19970826192103.51116@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19970826092144.4575.qmail@st1-jos.oce.nl>; from Jos Backus on Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:21:44AM %2B0200 References: <19970826092144.4575.qmail@st1-jos.oce.nl>
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On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:21:44AM +0200, Jos Backus wrote: > > [My apologies for this slightly off-topic question...] I don't think it's off-topic. > I am trying to get the version of Taylor UUCP (1.06.1) supplied with FreeBSD > to talk to some SCO UNIX 3.2 systems. > > The problem: the remote login prompt appears after dialing, the account name > gets sent and then the BSD uucico times out waiting for the ``word:'' prompt > to return. In fact, nothing gets sent back at all (according to the Debug > log). > > The SCO Technical FAQ mentions this to be a parity-related issue and talks > about adding ``"" P_ZERO'' to a V2 UUCP chat script, but Taylor UUCP doesn't > have this exact option. I tried adding ``chat-seven-bit false'' to the sys > description, but that doesn't make any difference. The FAQ is almost certainly wrong. > Help please :-) Here's my sys file entry for talking to scolon, SCO's uucp site in London. Read the comments and grin. system scolon myname lemis protocol-parameter g packet-size 4096 window 7 time Any port v32v42 phone 00441923210911 # SCO Systems are so slow that you need to pause after the login: prompt # and before entering the user ID. chat "" \r\c gin:-BREAK-gin: \d\L sword: \P call-login uusls call-password bbsuucp local-send / local-receive / In other words, it's still waiting for the login, since it wasn't ready for it when you sent it :-) You should be able to use this entry directly, unless they have changed the phone numbers. Greg
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