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From: dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz)
Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 & Com ports
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.031943.186@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Keywords: com tip ttys remote
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Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
References: <sxjcb.37.711773132@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:19:43 GMT
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In article <sxjcb.37.711773132@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu> sxjcb@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) writes:
>I've been trying to use tip to talk to both a line driver or a modem on com2 
>and I've had no end of trouble.  My hardware setup worked under Dos and 
># tip com2
>lock open: No such file or directory
>all ports busy

chown uucp /var/spool/lock or make tip suid root.
tip is suid uucp and wasn't able to write in the lock dir (and will have
a similar problem writing to /var/log/aculog).

  -Dan