From: klovatt@klnet.lugroid.com (Keith Lovatt) Subject: Re: Problem encountered with uucp program Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1993 01:08:49 GMT
Keith Barrett (barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com) wrote:
: My Linux system, including uucp mail and news, has been up and running fine
: ever since SLS 1.02 came out. BUT, for the first time I have tried to
: transfer a file between two systems using the actual uucp program, and I'm
: having problems. No matter what I do (what options I use, whether
: the file is xfered to the spool directory or not, etc), I get the
: following error ANYTIME I specify an output file/directory on the remote
: system:
: Event not found
: For example:
: uucp xxx node!~/xxx will fail
: uucp xxx node!aaa/xxx will fail
: uucp xxx node!xxx will fail
: uucp xxx node! will get accepted, but the actual
: transfer will fail due to destination
: being "//"
[...]
Hi.
I had the same problem (event not found). It seems to be a "feature" of the
shell in that it misinterprets the "!". Try the following:
uucp xxx node\!~/xxx
i.e. force no special handling of the "!".
Good luck.
Keith.
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