Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: BostonU SysMgrNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: UUCP question (maybe dumb) Message-ID: <8209@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 20:19:02 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8209 Posted: Sun Feb 10 20:19:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:41:57 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 15 We don't use UUCP much so I might be missing something here, apologies: We have a hard-wire between two machines and it seems like it would make sense if it just were always open rather than either having one side 'call' in or hack something to get alternate login shells on either side as desired etc. Perusing the code, it seems to me that uucp may not be robust enough to do this as written: 1) Something reasonable would have to happen when one side really went down 2) New work entering the queue would have to wake up uucico to start sending. Am I just missing something that's there? -Barry Shein, Boston University