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From: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.unix-wizards
Subject: uupick on hp 550 running hp-ux
Message-ID: <17@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 01:00:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: cogent.17
Posted: Thu Oct 16 01:00:26 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 22:33:06 EDT
Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
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Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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Keywords: lame, helpless, castrated, no fun either
Summary: uupick isn't much help as it is
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Can anyone help me with a frustrating uucp bug?  It involves uupick.
When uupick is invoked, it goes through it's usual routine of displaying
one received file at a time and asking what to do with it.  THe problem
is that whenever I tell it where to move the file to, I am told that that
directory cannot be accessed.  Thie happens regardless of the ownerships
and permissions of the directory.  Even in a directory of my own, in my
current group, with 777 permission, this error occurs.  The error goes
away, however, if I am super-user or root.

Obviously I cannot give root power to anyone who merely wants to use
public file transfers!  Please e-mail and I will post results and
credits afterwards.

I am running HP-UX on an HP 550.  I am not discounting the possibility
of bugs in HP's own implementation of UN*X and/or uucp (after all, nobody's
perfect).  Any ideas, HP people?

Thanx,

Mark Jeghers

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