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Subject: Re: tip: all ports busy
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From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 07:41:03 GMT
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In article <C4CHEs.Ln5@ns1.nodak.edu> zonjic@plains.NoDak.edu (Radivoje Zonjic (CE)) writes:
)
)well, subject says it all.
)i tried tip com1 with the default /etc/remote and
)unlocked /dev/com? and got that response.
)when i dialed from tiny it worked fine.
)what am i doing wrong?
)
Since answers seem increasingly rare on this group....I'll throw in my
$0.02 / 2 ....
The 386bsd.BUGS file sez this:
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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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I hope that helps. I still actually am using the distribution tip.
:-)
--
Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering
ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota