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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu!swallace From: swallace@pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu (Steven Wallace) Subject: Re: 386bsd 'tip' probs and Xfree86 Nntp-Posting-Host: pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu Message-ID: <2B96E69A.26016@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 47 Date: 5 Mar 93 05:35:22 GMT References: <1993Feb26.201146.20262@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <yPDVZB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> In article <yPDVZB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> warelock@netlink.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) writes: >dsantry@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Doug Santry) writes: > >> I just installed 386bsd and have been trying to use 'tip' to no avail. >> Everytime I try 'tip 570-1889' I get the following message : >> >> lock open : No such file or directory >> all ports busy >> >> Even if I fool with 'remote' and 'phones' I always get 'unknown host' message >> . How do I get tip to work? Also I don't want all the NFS stuff, which dire >> tories can I safely delete? > >I get the same thing. I don't know how to fix it. > Has anyone tried looking at the 386BSD BUG list? ======================================== Bug Number: INST002 Problem: /usr/bin/tip doesn't work. Explanation: tip is setuid "uucp". It wants to create a lock file under /var/spool/lock, but lock is owned by root and mode 0755. Since uucp can't create a lock, it dies. Solution: There are two solutions to the problem. The first is to make tip setuid root (chmod 4755 /usr/bin/tip), but that is not the best solution. The preferred solution is to change the ownerships on the /var/spool/lock directory to allow tip to create a lock file. Another little problem is /var/spool/aculog is written by tip, so uucp also needs to own that. I added the /dev/com devices because I wanted to make sure tip could always connect to them. This may be un-necessary. Ex: pc # chown uucp /var/spool/lock /dev/com* /var/spool/aculog Submitted by: osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Solved by: The net at large. ========================================