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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix 1.2 uucp - L_stat grows endlessly
Message-ID: <20933@felix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 22:30:49 GMT
References: <20348@felix.UUCP> <20507@felix.UUCP>
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In Ultrix 1.2 uucp, uucico attempts to maintain status inforation about
various system in the /usr/lib/uucp/L_stat file.  The uucico code attempts
to update the file in-place, however it ends up appending a trashed record
to the end of the file.  The file grows without bounds, and whenever you
invoke uucico with an -x9 debugging switch, the trash spews out on your
terminal.

The simplest fix is to clear out the L_stat file and remove write
permission.  This probably disables the "system" monitoring function
of uustat, but since the contents are garbage, it doesn't seem to
make a whole lot of difference.

Fix: (Ultrix 1.2)

su
cat /dev/null > /usr/lib/uucp/L_stat
chmod 0 /usr/lib/uucp/L-stat