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From: swallace@pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu (Steven Wallace)
Subject: Re: 386bsd 'tip' probs and Xfree86
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Organization: University of California, Irvine
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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?

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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. 
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