Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: a uucp unlock program
Message-ID: <192@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 16:10:18 GMT
References: <9465@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <3289@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 24
Keywords: uucico, unlock

In article <3289@killer.UUCP> chip@killer.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>
>As long as you are fixing this problem, there is another one you could
>fix at the same time.  It LCK.XQT is old, uuxqt will assume it is stale
>and remove it.

Well, you can define SPOOLNEWS (like I did) so that rnews doesn't run for
so long.

But failing that, just put this command in root's crontab:

    # Make sure that LCK.XQT is touched hourly.
    0  *   *   *   *   touch -c /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.XQT

Oh, and don't forget to make sure that a line like

	rm -f /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.*

is in your /etc/rc file, just in case of a system crash.

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