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From: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: uucico/uuxqt bugs...howcome?
Message-ID: <528@meccts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 17:54:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: meccts.528
Posted: Wed Sep 24 17:54:57 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Sep-86 03:50:21 EDT
References: <900@gilbbs.UUCP> <612@pyramid.UUCP> <728@ncc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St. Paul, Mn
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In article <728@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>I set up cron to "touch /usr/spool/uucp/LCK*" once per hour for the same 
>reasons. If there are no LCK files in the directory, touch creates a file
>named "LCK*".

The problem here is that touch will create a file when you say touch
filename UNLESS you say touch -c filename.  The correct cron entry is
'touch -c /usr/spool/uucp/LCK*'.
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Shane P. McCarron			UUCP	ihnp4!meccts!ahby
MECC Technical Services			ATT	(612) 481-3589

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