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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: uucico woes
- Message-ID: <92082919364@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 23:22:45 GMT
- References: <BtE8Er.LyA@csn.org>
- Organization: umunk (private)
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- tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
- : I've written before about uucico problems with C386 on my bitty
- : box. What drives me crazy is the Heisenburg nature of the bug;
- : yesterday it worked fine, sending mail, receiving files, today back
- : to calling, then hanging. And I didn't do anything in the meantime
- : (I know this is a cliche).
- :
- : Here's an excerpt from a debug file-
- :
- [ all fine until here ]
- : SIGALRM received #What is this?????
-
- Hm, this really shouldn't happen, but I don't know why I gets an
- alarm signal.
-
- : 08/22 08:49:46 [csn]: Modem says Annex Command Line Interpreter \
- : * Copyright 1991 Xylogics, Inc.
-
- And this looks like a false setting of the modems result codes either in
- /usr/bin/modeminit or /etc/modemcap.
-
- : Udo Monk suggested I use com4fr and also asked if I have a 16550AFN
- : chip (yes to that). When I place com4fr in /etc/ttys and run kill
- : quit 1 I get an unable to create device. Also, com4r was being used
- : successfully ytdy.
-
- Is the file /dev/com4fr with the permission 666 available on your system?
-
- : I don't understand why com's are used in /ttys /modemcap /L-devices
- : when C386 uses the asy drivers. At any rate, I reran asypatch, w/
- : 19200 baud set in default/async and choosing lrif in the options
- : for ASY03. No joy there either.
-
- The name of the devices is com, but Coherent 4.0 comes with the asy
- driver, which is able to support up to 32 serial lines on several
- I/O boards. Coherent 3.x comes with separate drivers for com1-com4
- and some multi channel serial boards. Please note: the name of
- the driver is asy, but it uses character special files with the
- name comXXX from the directory /dev to access the lines.
-
- : Are com's just links to asy's in C386? bob@mwc.com suggested I run
- : mknod on the com devices. I know the major number for com4 should
- : be 5 but what should I use for the minor number. Why can't I cp
- : these files to another dir? How can this work sometimes but fail
- : another?
-
- Here is ls -la of all my com-devices from directory dev:
-
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 160 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1fl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 224 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1fpl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 96 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1fpr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 32 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1fr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 128 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1l
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 192 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1pl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 64 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1pr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 0 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com1r
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 161 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2fl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 225 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2fpl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 97 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2fpr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 33 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2fr
- crw-rw-rw- 2 bin bin 5 129 Sat Aug 29 19:01 /dev/com2l
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 193 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2pl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 65 Fri Jul 10 02:11 /dev/com2pr
- crwx------ 1 root root 5 1 Sat Aug 29 18:32 /dev/com2r
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 162 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3fl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 226 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3fpl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 98 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3fpr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 34 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3fr
- crwx------ 1 udo user 5 130 Sat Aug 29 19:52 /dev/com3l
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 194 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3pl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 66 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3pr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 2 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com3r
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 163 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4fl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 227 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4fpl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 99 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4fpr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 35 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4fr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 131 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4l
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 195 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4pl
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 67 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4pr
- crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5 3 Fri Jul 10 02:12 /dev/com4r
-
- Attention: initially all permissions must be 666!!! So first disable
- all lines and change the permissions to 666 before enableing one.
- Permissions not equal to 666 in the above list are because there
- are running gettys/logins on that lines.
-
- : Lastly, when the system was working, mail bob@mwc.com would send
- : via my smart-host and receive mail packets, but these stayed in
- : /usr/spool/uucp/csn and were not delivered. Why? I have aliases
- : written. Lexicon mentions a /.forward file, but neglects to give an
- : example. Is this needed, if so what is the format?
-
- I've also noticed this, but very seldom. The next time uucico is
- running the mails are delivered. Until today I haven't figured out
- where the problem is. At last for me it's not really a problem,
- because of heavy uucico-ing to several systems. So sometimes I
- get a mail an hour later to read, that's all.
-
- : Appreciate any help with this very frustrating problem.
-
- Did you read the uucp installation guide from Joachim Riedel?
- You should ask him about that. Also I think it would be a good
- idea to post it all two weeks as an Coherent UUCP FAQ, or put it
- into the Coherent FAQ's. What do you think about that Joachim?
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