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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: ownership of .Admin files makes uustat bus error???
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.024724.697@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 18 Jul 90 02:47:24 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions)
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A very strange thing happened to me just now...  I was doing a bunch of Uutry's
(as root) in order to test out my new (used) trailblazer plus that i just bought
and all of a sudden the "uustat -m" command simply causes a "Bus error".  I
tried restoring the old uustat from distribution disk, ran uucleanup, etc. and
finally looked in the .Admin directory (this is h+d uucp on esix 5.3.2-c, by the
way) and noticed that one of the status files was owned by root.  I changed the
ownership to uucp and just as suddenly uustat -m worked again!

very strange.

I also can't seem to recreate the problem...  sigh.  cosmic rays?

derek
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Derek Terveer		det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG