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From: plus@wrangler.WLK.COM (ATplusT PC63xx Mailing list)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Two links to a directory?
Message-ID: <904@wrangler.WLK.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 91 23:19:55 GMT
Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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Resender: tower@wrangler.wlk.com (NCR Tower Mailing List)

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} Browsing around on my NCR Tower (SVR2) trying to solve a problem with lock
} files not being deleted by uucico, I discovered that there appear to be two 
} links to a directory, although I had thought that was not permitted in unix.  
} (multiple file links, yes, but not multiple directory links)
} 
} (ls -ail /usr/spool)
} total 8
}  1935 drwxrwxr-x   7 root     rootgrp      160 Jun 24 15:42 .
}    64 drwxr-xr-x  28 bin      bin          480 Mar  7 16:44 ..
}  1936 drwxr-xr-x   4 root     sys           64 Jul 18  1988 cron
}  1984 drwxrwxrwx  16 uucp     daemon       384 Jun 24 16:02 locks
}  1942 drwxr-xr-x   8 lp       bin          320 Dec 27 17:09 lp
}  1980 drwxrwxr-x   3 root     rootgrp      144 Feb 12  1990 lpd
}  1984 drwxrwxrwx  16 uucp     daemon       384 Jun 24 16:02 uucp
}  1997 drwxrwxrwx   2 uucp     daemon        96 May 25 03:37 uucppublic
} 
} Note that both locks and uucp have the same inode number.  As one might expect,
} /usr/spool/locks and /usr/spool/uucp have identical contents.  If I create
} a file in one, it shows up in the other.
} 
} Is this normal and, if not, is it a serious problem?  (Is it causing the 
} LCK..tty07 file not to be deleted after an incoming uucico call?)
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} 
This is definitely not normal.  However, it should not be very hard to
correct.  First try doing a rmdir on the locks directory.  I do not
expect this to work because the directory will not be empty.

If that does not work, do a backup of /usr/spool/uucp.  Then do a rm -r on
/usr/spool/uucp and /usr/spool/locks.  Then use mkdir to remake the two
directories and restore your backup.

Email me if this does not work.

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