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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work
- References: <1992Jul27.152614.25898@psg.com> <1992Jul28.065521.3441@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <Bs3wJp.88I@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:24:24 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
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- In <Bs3wJp.88I@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch) writes:
-
- >> 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.
-
- I looked at SunOS to see what they did. They have
-
- -rws--x--x 1 acu daemon 73728 Feb 8 1990 /usr/bin/tip
-
- and
-
- drwxr-sr-x 13 bin bin 512 Jul 25 11:31 /var/spool
- drwxr-sr-x 2 acu uucp 512 Jul 23 18:03 /var/spool/locks
-
- This looks quite reasonable. Look if something like this works under 386bsd
- (perhaps replace acu with uucp, or create an entry).
-
- Hope that helps.
-
- Holger
-
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