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- From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Kermit lock files
- Message-ID: <BuF9wG.1Co@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 16:31:28 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.160855.23000@news.nd.edu>
- Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep10.160855.23000@news.nd.edu> jonathan@nova.next.nd.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes:
- >I have linux running using the MCC-Interim release (and by the way, a great
- >job done in that package.) The kermit that comes with it (which I'm using now)
- >works fine but it puts its lock file in /tmp/LCK..ttys0 and I'd like it in
- >/usr/spool/uucp/LCK* instead. I assume somewhere there is a way of changing it
- >but I have yet to find it. The reason I need this is that UUGETTY checks
- >/usr/spool/uucp/LCK* for lock files and since kermit doesn't place one there
- >I get a serial port confliction between kermit and UUGETTY.
-
- In point of fact, the lock dir for uugetty (from getty_ps, I'm assuming) is a
- #define, so you can set it to whatever you like. (/tmp seems like a goofy
- choice to me, however)
-
- > Jonathan Bradshaw | jonathan@nova.decio.nd.edu | HAM: N9OXE | Prodigy XMSN02B
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- Steve Robbins -- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
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