From article <1992Nov11.174253.19547@dbsun.uucp>, by sachs@dbsun.uucp (sachs):
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> I have been trying to figure out a problem with setting up polling
> for one of my machines to talk to another one. The problem is with logging in.
> When uucico running on a Sun 4 establishes a connection through ACU with an
> IBM 550 (RS 6000 running under AIX), it just hangs after sending the login string. I stuck a line monitor in to check what exactly is going to and from the
> modem, and then tried to login into the same machine using the same login and password, but manually, through cu command. Everything worked fine. Then I ran
> Uutry and it tried to log in -- sending exactly the same charachters as I was sending
> manually -- and it just hang there after geting the expected "ogin:" and sennding the login string. If I add an extra linefeed to the login string in Systems,
> it goes to password and hangs there; if I also add a linefeed to password, it
> gives me "invalid password. Please try again" message.
>
> Victor Sachs
>
> dbsun!sachs@wupost.wustl.edu
> vls1@cec1.wustl.edu
> (314)731-7394
I had a similar problem. It turns out that the SUN (4.1.1) uucico defaults
to 7E1 when attempting to connect to an external system. I had my gettytab
set to 8N1 which did not cause a problem on receiving the login name. But
when the password was transmitted login did not appear to recognize the CR.
My solution was to change my gettytab back to 7E1. I also ran strings on
uucico and a STTY= string appeared. I would then assume that it is possible
to instruct uucico to use different communication parameters, but I don't
