Your Modem Does Not Dial If your modem (Web hosting comparison)
Your Modem Does Not Dial If your modem doesn’t indicate that the DTR line has been raised when uucico calls out, you might not have given the right device to uucico. If your modem recognizes DTR, check with a terminal program that you can write to the modem. If this works, turn on echoing with \E at the start of the modem chat. If the modem doesn’t echo your commands during the modem chat, check if your line speed is too high or low. If you see the echo, check if you have disabled modem responses or set them to number codes. Verify that the chat script itself is correct. Remember that you have to write two backslashes to send one to the modem. Your Modem Tries to Dial but Doesn’t Get Out Insert a delay into the phone number, especially if you have to dial a special sequence to gain an outside line from a corporate telephone network. Make sure you are using the correct dial type, as some telephone networks support only one type of dialing. Additionally, double check the telephone number to make sure it’s correct. Login Succeeds, but the Handshake Fails Well, there can be a number of problems in this situation. The output in the log file should tell you a lot. Look at what protocols the remote site offers (it sends a string Pprotlist during the handshake). For the handshake to succeed, both ends must support at least one common protocol, so check that they do. If the remote system sends RLCK, there is a stale lockfile for you on the remote system already connected to the remote system on a different line. Otherwise, ask the remote system administrator to remove the file. If the remote system sends RBADSEQ, it has conversation count checks enabled for you, but the numbers didn’t match. If it sends RLOGIN, you were not permitted to log in under this ID. Log Files and Debugging When compiling the UUCP suite to use Taylor-style logging, you have only three global log files, all of which reside in the spool directory. The main log file is named Log and contains all the information about established connections and transferred files. A typical excerpt looks like this (after a little reformatting to make it fit the page): uucico pablo -(1994-05-28 17:15:01.66 539) Calling system pablo (port cua3) uucico pablo -(1994-05-28 17:15:39.25 539) Login successful uucico pablo -(1994-05-28 17:15:39.90 539) Handshake successful (protocol ‘g’ packet size 1024 window 7) uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:43.65 539) Receiving D.pabloB04aj uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:46.51 539) Receiving X.pabloX04ai uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:48.91 539) Receiving D.pabloB04at uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:51.52 539) Receiving X.pabloX04as uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:54.01 539) Receiving D.pabloB04c2 uucico pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:15:57.17 539) Receiving X.pabloX04c1 uucico pablo -(1994-05-28 17:15:59.05 539) Protocol ‘g’ packets: sent 15, resent 0, received 32 uucico pablo -(1994-05-28 17:16:02.50 539) Call complete (26 seconds) uuxqt pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:16:11.41 546) Executing X.pabloX04ai (rmail okir) uuxqt pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:16:13.30 546) Executing X.pabloX04as (rmail okir) uuxqt pablo postmaster (1994-05-28 17:16:13.51 546) Executing X.pabloX04c1 (rmail okir) The next important log file is Stats, which lists file transfer statistics. The section of Stats corresponding to the above transfer looks like this (again, the lines have been split to fit the page): postmaster pablo (1994-05-28 17:15:44.78)