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- From: kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch)
- Subject: Re: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work
- Message-ID: <Bs3wJp.88I@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul27.152614.25898@psg.com> <1992Jul28.065521.3441@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:02:12 GMT
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- > The second problem I had was getting tip to work, and I saw a
- > couple of posts about this, but no solution. When tip is configured
- > properly, we get the
- > no file or no lock error. (sorry, I can't be more precise, but
- > I can't get that far again without reinstalling 386BSD on my whole
- > system, and then I can't get tip to work to read mail and news for the
- > solution :-)
-
- I think you will find that "tip" is setuid "uucp." Now it wants to create
- a lock file under /var/spool/lock I believe. You'll probably find that
- /var/spool/lock is owned by root and mode 0755. Thus "uucp" is unable to
- write/create a lock. I'm not sure whether "uucp" should own the directory
- or if it should be world writeable with the sticky-bit on like /tmp.
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