UUCICO timeout options?

2007-12-25 7:54:00

Thanks to all who replied so quickly to my post regarding UUCP software

timeout control:

fabrice@pure.com (Fabrice Guerini)

gwolsk@sei.com (Guntram Wolski)

Peter Shipley <shipley@tfs.COM>

skipnyc!skipsun!skip@fsg.com (Skip Gilbrech)

uusr243!burrito!pkb@uu2.psi.com (Paul Blankenbaker)

There were a variety of suggestions, most of which were variations on a

theme: to modify the expect-send pairs in the /etc/uucp/Dialers file to

add delays in the appropriate places and to setup an expect-send-expect

stream to provide a path to reset the 45 second default timout.

Here are the changes that I made to get this to work:

Entry as written by Sun:

tbfast =W-, "" \dA\pA\pA\pTE1V1X1Q0S2=255S12=255S50=255\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c CONNECT\sFAST

Entry as modified by me for delays and recovery:

tbfast =W-, "" \dA\pA\pA\pTE1V1X1Q0S2=255S12=255S50=255\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c\d\d\d\d CONNECT\sFAST-\c-CONNECT\sFAST \d\n

The first change is the addition of 8 seconds of delay (\d\d\d\d) at the end

of the send sequence that dials the telephone number, which effectively handles

a significant portion of the switching time involved in aquiring the

connection. Should it still fall through the 45 second timeout, the

"CONNECT\sFAST-\c-CONECT\sFAST" expect-send-expect token should catch it.

The final \d\n send string after connect attempts to generate an extra "login:"

from the remote host to counteract a problem I was experiencing with the

"login:" string being missed by uucico because it showed up before uucico was

expecting it.

Almost every respondant suggested that I get a copy of the "Managing UUCP and

Usenet" book by O'Reilly and Associates. I actually had the book, but it was

at work and I was not and didn't intend to be.

Rob

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Rob Scott, System Administrator for the Marine Physical Laboratory

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

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