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From: kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch)
Subject: Re: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work
Message-ID: <Bs3wJp.88I@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1992Jul27.152614.25898@psg.com> <1992Jul28.065521.3441@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:02:12 GMT
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>	The second problem I had was getting tip to work, and I saw a
> couple of posts about this, but no solution.  When tip is configured
> properly, we get the
>	no file or no lock error.  (sorry, I can't be more precise, but
> I can't get that far again without reinstalling 386BSD on my whole
> system, and then I can't get tip to work to read mail and news for the
> solution :-)

I think you will find that "tip" is setuid "uucp."  Now it wants to create
a lock file under /var/spool/lock I believe.  You'll probably find that
/var/spool/lock is owned by root and mode 0755.  Thus "uucp" is unable to
write/create a lock.  I'm not sure whether "uucp" should own the directory
or if it should be world writeable with the sticky-bit on like /tmp.