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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!nsisrv!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work Message-ID: <1992Jul29.122158.6703@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 29 Jul 92 12:21:58 GMT References: <1992Jul27.152614.25898@psg.com> <1992Jul28.065521.3441@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 24 In article <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu> rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu (Rich Boccuzzi) writes: > [problem about disappearing disklabel deleted, I don't have an answer :-( ] > > 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 :-) As installed off the bin01 distribution set, /var/spool/lock is owned by root while tip is setuid uucp, chown uucp /var/spool/lock to fix this problem and do the same for /var/log/aculog. Funny, release 0.0 had some scripts in /etc to check for silly mistakes like this that seem to be missing from 0.1 unless they are part of the distribution I don't have room to install. -- LCDR Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.3 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 R3.2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com