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- From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
- Subject: Re: what about uucp working again???
- References: <1992Dec7.143752.10110@umibox.hanse.de>
- Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822 Sacramento CA. USA
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:55:38 GMT
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- root@umibox.hanse.de writes:
- : After upgrading to pl6, I know have developed kind fo skill in rebooting -
- : every time I want to use uucp (and this is my newsfeed, so once or twice per
- : day) it's going back to pl3, uucp'ing, and back to pl6.
- : This is somehow annoying, and I thought it was some dumb mistake I made
- : until I recently read that already pl5 broke the uucp stuff.
-
- pl6 breaks it too.
-
- : Even worse, I have by mistake deleted my mailpak, and such am not easily
- : able to recompile. I could of course pick it up again, but would be somehow
- : disappointed to see that the new binaries would still coredump.
-
- Not good. Having the source code helps, but....
-
- : Now, is there a working uucp (+stuff) out there somewhere? Does recompiling
- : help?....
-
- For me, so far, even with the ever-so-highly-recommended "-fwritable-strings"
- flag as part of the CFLAGS in the Makefile, the answer is a very resounding
- "NO". I've been testing the holy hell out of the uucico code with gdb and
- have found that it barfs on the sigaction() call in the usset_signal() fun-
- ction in sys1.c (hardlinked to sys1.unx). At least I've gotten that far,
- but I don't know enough about the innards of the system (though I do have
- source code for same innards) or have any other source code which makes
- use of the sigaction() (that I know of) to rip apart and analyze.
-
- Hope this helps anyone who's been hacking away at UUCP.
-
- BTW, I still have _MY_ mailpak.. Shame on you for zapping your copy! :-)
- --
- Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP
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