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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: uucp bug overwriting existing file
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.232830.24896@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 11 Feb 91 23:28:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb02.034416.3383@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Feb06.062553.15422@ism.isc.com> <1991Feb06.202429.14277@chinet.chi.il.us>
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les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>There is another problem that appeared in SysVr3.1 that apparently
>has something to do with security.  If you start up uucico under
>[... description of 2+ level directory creation causing failure]

Aha!  Yes, i have seen this problem before and never got around to
tracking down the exact reasons for it.  I did notice that it failed
when directories were created.  BTW this is present in Esix 5.3.2-D.

derek
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