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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!utcsri!torn!watserv1!watdragon.uwaterloo.ca!kcwellsc 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 Lines: 13 > 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.