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- From: elitman@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman)
- Subject: L.sys chat script
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.212405.3117@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:24:05 GMT
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- I have recently been offered a uucp connection from a local Internet site, and
- have configured my system accordingly. However, I am having a bit of a problem
- with the chat script.
-
- In my script, I log into an Annex terminal server, then to an account on a
- machine connected to the Annex, then rlogin -8 to the uucp host. All goes
- well in the connection up to the point where the script interacts with the
- shell, at which point it hangs.
-
- To successfully send the password to the remote host, I must have a \n\c
- following the text to be entered. on the next line:
-
- UU:~5-\n-UU: uucall \
-
- where 'UU:' is the prompt on the account, and uucall is an alias to a rlogin
- -8 command. For some reason, the 'uucall' is not being interpreted by the
- shell (I've used both csh and tcsh, the later being totally unusable in this
- circumstance). Using uucico at debug level 6, I see that 'uucall' is sent
- but a line feed is not performed, and the shell gives no reply. The cursor
- merely returns to the beginning of the line. If I append \n or \n\c to the
- line, stderr reports that 'uucall' is not found. I have only used the alias
- 'uucall' because I saw the same error message when using
-
- 'rlogin\s<uucp host deleted>\s-8\s-l<account name deleted>'
-
- The shell interpreted $# as the entire command - it reported that
- 'rlogin <uucp host> -8 -l <login name>' was not found.
-
- This leads me to believe that uucico and uupoll are sending some other
- characters with the text I have input. Strangely enough, appending a \r
- to the line has no effect whatsoever.
-
- Logging into the account manually, I am able to perform all of the above
- functions effortlessly.
-
- I am running the NeXT 2.1 standard UUCP software on an '030 cube.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas on this? I would appreciate any information or
- suggestions.
-
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