I originally asked about UUCP warnings :
> We have been unable to contact machine 'east' since you queued
> your job.
>
> mail east!east.pure.com!janice (Date 04/16)
> Attempts will continue for a few more days.
>
> Sincerely,
> pure!uucp
>
> #############################################
> ##### Data File: ############################
> ...
and how to increase the delay at which they are sent.
This turned out to be a case of RTFM when TFI (the fine information) is
hard to find. Even Sun could not come up with an answer. I wonder why I
even bother calling Sun Support before trying sun-managers first...
Anyway, the answer was best expressed by tim@ben.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing) :
> Fabrice,
>
> Check out the crontab entry for "uucp". You will probably see it invoking
> "/etc/uucp/uudemon.cleanup". Within that script (about line 99 in our 4.1.3
> version of uudemon.cleanup), "uucleanup" will be called with various options
> indicating the ages of the various types of UUCP files which get zapped.
> Also, there will be a "-W" option which specifies how old a request has to
> be before a warning is sent out. Change this number to the number of days
> before the warning. Check out uucleanup(8C) for details (yes, you should
> RTFM now that you know where to look ;-).
In hindsight, I should have run strings(1) on /usr/lib/uucp/*, which would
have pointed me in the right direction.
Other suggestions were :
* Look for the line "OT3d" in your sendmail.cf file.
* Configure UUCP to poll remote machines on a periodic basis (see file 'Poll')
in /etc/uucp directory.
Thanks a million to :
Joel Shandelman (shandelm@jpmorgan.com)
Andrew Benson (drew@mtu.edu)
Shankar Ishwar (shankar@ulysses.att.com)
Art Hebert (Art.Hebert@EBay.Sun.COM) Who said Sun was unresponsive ? :-)
Bob Izenberg (bobi@vswr.sps.mot.com)
Stephen Kowalczyk (kowal@ide.com)
David St. Pierre (david@srv.PacBell.COM)
and all the others who have not responded yet!
-- ,
Fabrice Guerini DOMAIN : fabrice@pure.com
Pure Software, Inc. UUCP : {uupsi4,fernwood}!pure!fabrice
Sunnyvale, CA 94087 BELL : (408) 720-1600
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours."
-- Richard Bach
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