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- From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
- Subject: Re: uucp "permission denied"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.194022.23325@psisa.psi>
- Sender: usenet@psisa.psi (News system)
- Reply-To: robin@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
- References: <1992Aug30.195150.4459@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:40:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.195150.4459@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG> bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG
- writes:
- > pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:
- > : Trying to use the uucp command to send a file to another
- > : system over a modem, and I keep getting permission denied error, even
- > : if the file is set to mode 777. What am I doing wrong?
- > :
- >
- > I believe you'll find that sends from a directory accessable to both uucp
- > and the file's owner will work. Perhaps /usr/spool/uucppublic ? The mode
- of
- > the directory was likely NOT set to 777 in your testing (and at least an
- execute
- > permission to uucp for all above it in the tree-path as specified).
- >
-
- On the contrary, I would bet this is caused by the shell.
-
- I had this exact same problem, and the solution I ended up with was to quote
- the source and target files. Like so:
-
- uucp "localfile" "remotemachine!...!file"
-
- Best I could figure out, it has to do with the shell assigning some value to
- the "!" character in the address. (Since I came from the HDB UUCP
- environment to the NeXT, and I had been using 'ksh' prior to the NeXT, the
- "!" having a special meaning to my shell (or UUCP) had not affected me beofre
- - took me a week to figure it out.)
-
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